Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
Ivan Turgenev Poems on Man (22 Poems)
An Eastern Legend (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
Hang Him! (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'It happened in 1803,' began my old acquaintance, 'not long beforeAusterlitz. The regiment in which I was an officer was ...
The Old Woman (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was walking over a wide plain alone.And suddenly I fancied light, cautious footsteps behind my back…. Someone was walking ...
The Fool (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There lived a fool.For a long time he lived in peace and contentment; but by degrees rumoursbegan to reach him ...
Alms (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Near a large town, along the broad highroad walked an old sick man.He tottered as he went; his old wasted ...
A Conversation (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by thefoot of man!'The topmost peaks of the Alps… A ...
The Egoist (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
He had every qualification for becoming the scourge of his family.He was born healthy, was born wealthy, and throughout the ...
The Insect (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I dreamed that we were sitting, a party of twenty, in a big room with openwindows.Among us were women, children, ...
Nature (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I dreamed I had come into an immense underground temple with lofty archedroof. It was filled with a sort of ...
‘Thou shalt Hear The Fool’s Judgment…. (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'Thou shalt hear the fool's judgment….' You always told the truth, Ogreat singer of ours. You spoke it this time, ...
Cabbage Soup (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A peasant woman, a widow, had an only son, a young man of twenty, the bestworkman in the village, and ...
The Workman And The Man With White Hands – A Dialogue (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
WORKMAN. Why do you come crawling up to us? What do ye want? You're none ofus…. Get along!MAN WITH WHITE ...
To The Memory Of U. P. Vrevsky (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
On dirt, on stinking wet straw under the shelter of a tumble-down barn,turned in haste into a camp hospital, in ...
Christ (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I saw myself, in dream, a youth, almost a boy, in a low-pitched woodenchurch. The slim wax candles gleamed, spots ...
We Will Still Fight On (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
What an insignificant trifle may sometimes transform the whole man!Full of melancholy thought, I walked one day along the highroad.My ...
The Dog (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Us two in the room; my dog and me…. Outside a fearful storm is howling.The dog sits in front of ...
The Banquet Of The Supreme Being (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
One day the Supreme Being took it into his head to give a great banquet inhis palace of azure.All the ...
A Contented Man (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A young man goes skipping and bounding along a street in the capital. Hismovements are gay and alert; there is ...
Prayer (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Whatever a man pray for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reducesto this: 'Great God, grant that twice two ...
The Old Man (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Days of darkness, of dreariness, have come…. Thy own infirmities, thesufferings of those dear to thee, the chill and gloom ...
Two Rich Men (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
When I hear the praises of the rich man Rothschild, who out of his immenserevenues devotes whole thousands to the ...