Collection of poems by Mikhail Lermontov

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COLLECTION OF POEMS
BY

Mikhail Lermontov
(Born 1814, Died 1841)

(Translations from Russian)

Mikhail Lermontov was descended from George Learmont, a Scottish officer who entered the Russian service in the early seventeenth century. His literary fame began with a poem on the death of Pushkin, full of angry invective against the court circles ; for this Lermontov, a Guards officer, was courtmartialled and temorarily transferred to the Caucasus. With the conspicuous exception of The Angel (1831), the best of his poetry was written during the last five years of his life. The Last House-warming (1840), in which he protests against the transfer of Napoleon's body from St. Helena to the Invalides, is an example of his rhetorical power. He was killed in a duel at the age of twenty-seven.

From "The Heritage of Russian Verse," by Dimitri Obolensky

A
	The Angel
B
	The Beggar
C
	The Captive Knight
	The Confession
	The Cross On the Rock
D
	The Dagger
	Death Of the Poet
	"Don't Trust In Self..."
	The Dream
F
	The First Of January
	"Forever You, the Unwashed Russia!"
	From Goethe
G
	Gratitude
	The Grave of Ossian
H
	"He Has Been Born..."
I
	"I Come Out To the Path..."
	"I Want To Live..."
J
	Jewish Melody
L
	Loneliness
M
	My Country
	My Home
N
	The Neighbor
	"No, I'm Not Byron..."
	"No, Not With You..."
	"Not With the Proud Kind Of Beauty"
O
	"On a Bare Hill's Top..."
P
	"The People Of Israel, Cry, Cry!"
	The Prayer
	The Prophecy
	Prophet
R
	Requiem
S
	The Sail
T
	"Their Love Was So Gentle..."
	To A. O. Smirnoff
	To the Countess Rostopchin
	To Naryshkin
	To the Picture Of Rembrandt
	To the Portrait
	To Trubetskoy
	To ***
W
	Waves And People
	"We Stood In the Ranks..."
	"When, In the Corny Field..."
	Why

See more translations by Yevgeny Bonver.

Special thanks to Yevgeny Bonver, Tanya Karshtedt and Dmitry Karshtedt for providing me with unique material for this page (i.e. with their translations of famous poems by Mikhail Lermontov)

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