Russian Lyrics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UNDER A PORTRAIT OF JUKOWSKY charm and sweetness of his magic verse Will mock the envious years for centuries! Since youth, on hearing them, for glory burns, The wordless sorrow comfort in them sees, And careless joy to wistful musing turns. Pushkin. Jukowsky was a Russian poet. THE VISION T REMEMBER a marvellous instant, Unto me bending down from above, Thy radiant vision appearing As an angel of beauty and love. 'Mid the torments of desperate sadness, In the torture of bondage and sighs, To me rang thy voice so beloved? And I dreamed thy miraculous eyes. But the years rolled along?and life's tempests My illusions, my youth overcame, I forgot that sweet voice full of music? And thy glance like a heavenly flame. In the covert and grief of my exile, The days stretched unchanged in their flight, Bereft inspi