Research Catalog

Title

Modern Russian poetry; an anthology, chosen and tr. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

Author

Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982

Publication

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921.

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Details

Additional Authors

Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, 1890-1975.

Description

4 preliminary leaves, v-xix, 181 pages; 20 cm

Series Statement

The European library

Uniform Title

European library

Subject

• Russian poetry > Translations into English
• Russian poetry
• Russian poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Russian poetry.
• Translations

Contents

A nereid ; "Behold a sower" ; Three springs ; The prophet ; Verses written during a sleepless night ; Work ; Madonna / Alexander Pushkin -- Prayer / Yevgeny Baratynsky -- An old man's song / Alexey Koltzov -- The angel ; The cup of life ; Gratitude ; from "The Daemon" / Mikhail Lermontov; Captive knight / Mikhail Lermontov -- Twilight ; "As ocean's stream" ; Silentium ; Autumn evening ; July 14, at night ; "Oh, thou, my wizard soul" / Fyodor Tyutchev -- "The capitals are rocked with thunder" ; "My poems!" ; The salt song / Nikolai Nekrasov -- "My little almond tree" ; "A well, and the cherry trees swaying" ; "Oh, the ricks" / Alexey K. Tolstoy -- Art ; "Upon this wild headland" ; Summer rain / Apollon Maikov -- "Whispers, timid breathing" ; The aerial city ; Swallows / Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth -- The cosmic fabric ; Sorrow's madness / Yakov Polonsky -- "Below the sultry storm" ; "With wavering feet" / Vladimir Solovyov -- Force ; My temple / N. Minsky -- A prayer ; The trumpet call ; The curse of love / Dmitry Merezhkovsky -- The amphora ; The dragon ; "When, heaving on the stromy waters" ; "Austere the music of my songs" ; The devil's swings / Fyodor Sologub -- "I seek for rhythmic whisperings" ; Psyche ; Creation / Zinaida Hippius -- "With my fancy I grasped" ; Centuries of centuries will pass ; In the white land ; Hymn to fire / Konstantin Balmont -- The tryst ; "Radiant ranks of seraphim" ; Benediction ; Inevitability ; The fierce birds ; Eventide ; "Oh, cover" ; Saint Sebastian ; The coming Huns / Valery Brusov -- Russian spring ; A song ; The God of noon ; In an empty house ; Flax / Ivan Bunin -- The catch ; Autumn ; Fountain ; The seeking of self ; Complaint ; Narcissus : a Pompeiian bronze ; Funeral ; The holy rose ; Nomads of beauty / Vyacheslav Ivanov -- The pendulum ; The surf / Yurgis Baltrushaitis -- Cimmerian twilight ; From the Sonnet-cycle "Lunaria". Sonnet XV / Maximilian Voloshin ; Stigmata / Maximilian Voloshin -- "Now dry thy eyes" ; "Night was done" ; from Alexandrian songs / Mikhail Kuzmin -- "Purple autumn" / Georgy Chulkov -- "Into crimson dark" ; The unknown woman ; The lady unknown ; "A little black man" ; Russia ; "When mountain-ash" ; The Scythians ; from "The twelve" / Alexander Blok -- Messengers ; Euthanasia ; "You sit on the bed there" / Andrey Bely -- "Still was the evening" / Victor Hofman -- "Upon the black brow of a cliff / Vasily Bashkin -- Yarila ; The birch tree / Sergey Gorodetzky -- "Like a white stone" ; Confession ; "Broad gold, the evening" ; Prayer / Anna Akhmatova -- And it passed by the sea-shore ; A Russian song ; Spring apple-tree / Igor Severyanin -- A northern poem ; An Izba song / Nikolai Kluyev -- A Lenton one / Lubov Stolitza -- "Upon green hills" ; "Hopes painted by the autumn cold" ; "In the clear cold" ; Transfiguration : III / Sergei Yesenin -- "How strange, Oh God" / Z. Shishova -- Not by hands created / Piotr Oreshin -- "Savage, nomad hordes" ; October / Anatoly Marienhof.

LCCN

22001307

OCLC

• ocm01927349
• 1927349
• SCSB-170365

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library