Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXII

I've known belles inaccessible, cold, winter-chaste; inexorable, incorruptible, 4 unfathomable by the mind; I marveled at their modish morgue, at their natural virtue, and, to be frank, I fled from them, 8 and I, meseems, with terror read above their eyebrows Hell's inscription: 1 'Abandon hope for evermore!"20

To inspire love is bale for them, 12, to frighten folks for them is joyance. Perhaps, on the banks of the Neva similar ladies you have seen.