Selected Poetry

Chronology
Introduction & Notes, by Antony Wood
Translating Pushkin
Further Reading

I. Lyric Poems

St Petersburg, 1814-20

–To a Young Beauty who has Taken Snuff (1814)
–The Rose (1815)
–To Baroness M. A. Delvig (1815)
–To Princess V. M. Volkonskaya (1816)
–The Singer (1816)
–The Window (1816)
–Liberty: An Ode (1817)
–To Chaadayev (1818)
–O. Masson (1819)
–A Good Revel (1819)
–Renaissance (1819)
–You and I (1820)
–To Yuryev (1820)

Exile, 1820-26

–‘The light of day has faded’ (1820)
–The Nereid (1820)
–‘I have outlived desires’ (1821)
–The Prisoner (1822)
–A Songbird (1823)
–Night (1823)
–‘I went alone before the dawn’ (1823)
–[On Vorontsov] (‘Half trade, half grand seigneur’) (1824)
–‘Zephyrs share / The midnight air’ (1824)
–To *** (‘It comes to me again, that moment’) (1825)
–‘Late blooms I find more pleasing’ (1825)
–Winter Evening (1825)
–Prose Writer and Poet (1825)
–Mniszek’s ‘sonnet’, from Boris Godunov (1825)
–Confession (1826)
–The Prophet (1826)

Moscow and St Petersburg, 1826-30

–[To my Nanny] (‘My dear companion of past times’) (1826)
–Winter Road (1826)
–To I. I. Pushchin (1826)
–‘Deep in the Siberian mines’ (1827)
–Arion (1827)
–The Angel (1827)
–The Poet (1827)
–19 October 1827 (1827)
–The Talisman (1827)
–Recollection (1828)
–Thou and You (1828)
–‘My beauty, sing to me no more’ (1828)
–Portrait (1828)
–The Drowned Man (1828)
–The Upas Tree (1828)
–‘Raven flies to raven’ (1828)
–The Poet and the Crowd (1828)
–A Flower (1828)
–‘City of splendour, city of poor’ (1828)
–Signs (1829)
–‘Once there lived a humble knight’ (1829)
–‘The mists of night enfold the Georgian hills’ (1829)
–From Hafiz (1829)
–‘The drums of reveille sound . . .’ (1829)
–The Monastery on Mount Kazbek (1829)
–‘Winter. The country’ (1829)
–Winter Morning (1829)
–‘I loved you: in my heart, perhaps’ (1829)
–‘I walk the crowded thoroughfare’ (1829)
–‘Inscribe my name? What good–‘ (1830)
–‘No, I have lost the taste for stormy pleasure’ (1830)
–To the Poet (1830)
–Madonna (1830)
–Demons (1830)
–Elegy (1830)
–To the Bust of a Conqueror (1830)
–Rhyme (1830)
–Invocation (1830)
–Mary’s Song, from A Feast during the Plague (1830)
–Master of the Revels’ song, from A Feast during the Plague (1830)
–‘Bound for your distant homeland’ (1830)

Married Life, 1831-6

–To the Slanderers of Russia (1831)
–My Pedigree (1831)
–For the Album of Princess Anna Abamelek (1832)
–The Beauty (1832)
–Autumn (A fragment) (1833)
–‘It’s time, my love, it’s time!’ (1834)
–[from Anacreon:] A fragment (1835)
–‘. . . I see again / That corner of the earth’ (1835)
–‘The ready power of suffering’ (1835)

The Stone Island Cycle:
–From Pindemonte (1836)
–‘The desert fathers and unblemished women’ (1836)
–Imitation of the Italian (1836)
–Secular Power (1836)
–‘When, alone with my thoughts, I leave the city’ (1836)

–‘I have made myself, but not with hands, a monument’ (1836)

II. Narrative Poems (Poemy)

–The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1823)
–The Gypsies (1824)
–The Bridegroom (1825)
–Count Nulin (1825)
–A Little House in Kolomna (1830)
–The Bronze Horseman (1833)

III. Fairy Tales (Skazki)

–The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1831)
–The Tale of a Fisherman and a Little Fish (1833)
–The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Champions (1833)
–The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1834)

Abbreviations
Glossary of Metrical Terms
Notes
Acknowledgements