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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

“My Poems!”

Nikolai Nekrasov (1821–1877)

MY poems! Witnesses of unavailing

Tears for the sad earth shed!

Born in the moment when the soul is failing,

And by the storm-winds bred;

Against men’s hearts you beat with wistful wailing

Like waves on cliffs as dead.