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# Elegia (Translation, Pushkin)
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- Published: 2022-06-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Those frantic years, their joy extinguished, over Weigh heavily, brain muddled and hung over But like a wine -- the sorrow of days gone grows stronger as it ages, now all brawn My path has dulled, predicting labored g...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Those frantic years, their joy extinguished, over  
Weigh heavily, brain muddled and hung over  
But like a wine -- the sorrow of days gone  
grows stronger as it ages, now all brawn  
My path has dulled, predicting labored grieving  
uncertain, wary seas, the waters heaving

But friends, I do not wish, at all, to die,  
I want to live, to think, to suffer, aye;  
I well know what awaits me: rarer pleasures,  
mixed in with disappointments, anxious measures:  
Occasionally tranquilized by drink,  
or drowned in tears when writing what I think.  
Perhaps, just maybe, for my sad, last chapter  
Love flashes a sweet smile, to take hereafter

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**Author notes:** Безумных лет угасшее веселье Мне тяжело, как смутное похмелье. Но, как вино — печаль минувших дней В моей душе чем старе, тем сильней. Мой путь уныл. Сулит мне труд и горе Грядущего волнуемое море. Но не хочу, о други, умирать; Я жить хочу, чтоб мыслить и страдать; И ведаю, мне будут наслажденья Меж горестей, забот и треволненья: Порой опять гармонией упьюсь, Над вымыслом слезами обольюсь, И может быть — на мой закат печальный Блеснет любовь улыбкою прощальной.