Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

**Lampada** · January 28th, 2013, 01:13 PM

Poems Found in Translation: Pushkin: "To...." (From Russian)

To....
By Alexander Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
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I still recall a wonder vision.
The day when you before me shone,
A fleeting genius apparition,
A perfect beauty paragon.

Through hopeless sorrows that oppressed me,
Through life's alarms and senseless schemes
That caring voice and soul caressed me,
And that endearing face filled dreams.

Years passed. The stormwinds whirled against me,
Scattering former dreams of grace,
And I forgot your voice caressed me,
Forgot your beatific face.

In wastes, away...in isolation
My days dragged on from year to year:
No deity, no inspiration
No life, no love, and not one tear.

The soul was wakened by a vision
As finally again you shone,
A fleeting genius apparition,
A perfect beauty paragon.

The heart rebounds in exaltation,
As resurrected from dead years
Rise deity and inspiration
And love and life and all the tears.

**Lampada** · January 28th, 2013, 01:21 PM

I Loved You
By Alexander Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
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I loved you, once: and love, it could well be,
Within my soul lies unextinguished yet.
But let the thought no longer trouble you.
I would not bring you anguish or regret.
I loved you with no words and to no end
Now timorous, now jealous, pain by pain.
I loved you though so tenderly, sincerely
I hope to God you're loved like that again.

**Lampada** · January 28th, 2013, 01:40 PM

Pushkin: DueTime (From Russian)
Due Time
By A.S. Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

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Bound for your distant homeland's shore
You left behind a foreign clime
How long I wept before your eyes,
That unforgotten, grievous time.
Hands growing colder as they tried
To hold you back with me a spell,
My cry prayed you and heaven not
To break the anguish of farewell.

But from that moment's bitter kiss
You tore away at last your face.
Out of a realm of sullen exile
You called me into different space.
You said "When once again we meet
Beneath a sky forever blue,
By shade of olive trees, the kiss
Of love shall reunite us two."

But there, alas, where arching heavens
Shine in a sparkle blue and deep
Where olives shaded quiet waters
You fell into the final sleep.
Now all your beauty, your ordeals
Are gone into the grave with you-
And gone with them reunion's kiss
But I still wait. It still is due.

TheOriginal:

"Для берегов отчизны дальной.."
А.С. Пушкин

Для берегов отчизны дальной
Ты покидала край чужой;
В час незабвенный, в час печальный
Я долго плакал пред тобой.
Мои хладеющие руки
Тебя старались удержать;
Томленье страшное разлуки
Мой стон молил не прерывать.

Но ты от горького лобзанья
Свои уста оторвала;
Из края мрачного изгнанья
Ты в край иной меня звала.
Ты говорила: «В день свиданья
Под небом вечно голубым,
В тени олив, любви лобзанья
Мы вновь, мой друг, соединим».

Но там, увы, где неба своды
Сияют в блеске голубом,
Где тень олив легла на воды,
Заснула ты последним сном.
Твоя краса, твои страданья
Исчезли в урне гробовой —
А с ними поцелуй свиданья…
Но жду его; он за тобой…

**Lampada** · January 28th, 2013, 01:32 PM

Night
By Alexander Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

My voice for you is languid, low and light,
Troubling the silence of the dark, late night.
A sullen candle at the pillow's verge
Glows; and my verses murmurously merge
And gush; the brooks of love flow full of you
And in the darkness that your eyes shine through
To smile at me, there are the sounds I hear:
I'm yours....I'm yours....my dear...my only dear.

**Lampada** · January 28th, 2013, 02:31 PM

Pushkin: TheUpas Tree (From Russian)

http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.c...m-russian.html

TheUpas Tree¹
By Alexander Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

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On scorched and conflagrated sands,
In sapped and grudging desolation,
The solitary Upas stands
Grim sentinel of all creation.

This thing was spawned one day of rage
From nature of the thirsting plain
That slaked the death-green foliage
And deep-set roots with sap of bane.

The venom oozes down the bark
Turned liquid in the midday blaze,
Congealing at the fall of dark
To clots of cruel, translucent glaze.

No tigers come, no birds alight.
None but the wind's black breath will dare
Circle around that tree of blight
And leave with newly deadly air.

And, should an errant cloud imbue
With rain the rank leaves' laden glands,
The branches drip a toxic dew
Onto incendiary sands.

But once a man dispatched a man
With one dread glance to that dead waste
And he obeyed. Away he ran
And brought the poison back with haste:

Its lethal sap, its waxen bough
And desiccated leaves. The sweat
Across his sallow, stricken brow
Ran in a chilling rivulet.

He brought it, stumbled and sprawled, prone
Beneath the tent for his reward:
A poor slave's death before the throne
Of his invulnerable lord.

And in that poison brew the Tsar
Dipped arrows under his command,
And loosed perdition near and far
On men of every neighboring land.

Notes:

1 The Upas Tree (Antiaris Toxicaria) produces a latex sap which, upon entering the human blood stream, causes cardiac arrest almost immediately. This sap has historically been used in central and east Asia in blow darts and arrows.

Many thanks to: Dmitri Simenov for a Russian lexical item; AdamElgar and Andrew Frisardi for advice on the English text; Lina Steiner for theencouragement after I foisted this translation on her.
TheOriginal:

Анчар
Древо Яда
Александр Пушкин

В пустыне чахлой и скупой,
На почве, зноем раскаленной,
Анчар, как грозный часовой,
Стоит - один во всей вселенной.

Природа жаждущих степей
Его в день гнева породила,
И зелень мертвую ветвей
И корни ядом напоила.

Яд каплет сквозь его кору,
К полудню растопясь от зною,
И застывает ввечеру
Густой прозрачною смолою.

К нему и птица не летит,
И тигр нейдет: лишь вихорь черный
На древо смерти набежит -
И мчится прочь, уже тлетворный.

И если туча оросит,
Блуждая, лист его дремучий,
С его ветвей, уж ядовит,
Стекает дождь в песок горючий.

Но человека человек
Послал к анчару властным взглядом,
И тот послушно в путь потек
И к утру возвратился с ядом.

Принес он смертную смолу
Да ветвь с увядшими листами,
И пот по бледному челу
Струился хладными ручьями;

Принес - и ослабел и лег
Под сводом шалаша па лыки,
И умер бедный раб у ног
Непобедимого владыки.

А царь тем ядом напитал
Свои послушливые стрелы
И с ними гибель разослал
К соседям в чуждые пределы.

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**Yulia65** · January 29th, 2013, 04:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zR23o0mY0w

Здесь можно послушать романс на стихи А. С. Пушкина "Что в имени тебе моем?" музыка и исполнение Валерия Пака. Из всех существующих романсов, взявших это стихотворение за основу, романс Пака, по-моему, самый лучший.