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 (50 Poems)
The Country (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
The last day of July; for a thousand versts around, Russia, our nativeland.An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a ...
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 Nymphs (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I stood before a chain of beautiful mountains forming a semicircle. Ayoung, green forest covered them from summit to base.Limpidly ...
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 ...
A Dream (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I fancied I was somewhere in Russia, in the wilds, in a simple countryhouse.The room big and low pitched with ...
The Two Brothers (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
It was a vision…Two angels appeared to me… two genii.I say angels, genii, because both had no clothes on their ...
Masha (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire asledge, I used to get into ...
The Doves (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I stood on the top of a sloping hillside; before me, a gold and silver seaof shifting colour, stretched the ...
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 ...
How Fair, How Fresh Were The Roses … (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Somewhere, sometime, long, long ago, I read a poem. It was soon forgotten… but the first line has stuck in ...
The Rose (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
The last days of August…. Autumn was already at hand.The sun was setting. A sudden downpour of rain, without thunder ...
On The Sea (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was going from Hamburg to London in a small steamer. We were twopassengers; I and a little female monkey, ...
The Realm Of Azure (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
O realm of azure! O realm of light and colour, of youth and happiness! Ihave beheld thee in dream. We ...
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 ...
Friend And Enemy (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A prisoner, condemned to confinement for life, broke out of his prison andtook to head-long flight…. After him, just on ...
A Visit (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was sitting at the open window… in the morning, the early morning ofthe first of May.The dawn had not ...
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 ...
My Adversary (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I had a comrade who was my adversary; not in pursuits, nor in service, norin love, but our views were ...
‘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 ...
The Sparrow (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was returning from hunting, and walking along an avenue of the garden, mydog running in front of me.Suddenly he ...
The Last Meeting (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
We had once been close and warm friends…. But an unlucky moment came…and we parted as enemies.Many years passed by…. ...