Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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Eugene Onegin [XVI] Beauteous are you, shores of the Tauris, when from the ship one sees you by the light of morning Cypris, as I saw you 4 for the first time. You showed yourselves to me in nuptial splendor. Against a blue and limpid sky shone the amassments of your mountains. 8 The pattern of valleys, trees, villages was spread before me. And there, among the small huts of the Tatars…

What ardency awoke in me! 12 With what magical yearnfulness my flaming bosom was compressed! But, Muse, forget the past! [xvn] Whatever feelings then lay hidden within me-now they are no more: they went or changed… 4 Peace unto you, turmoils of former years! To me seemed needful at the time deserts, the pearly rims of waves, and the sea's rote, and piles of rocks, 8 and the ideal of "proud maid," and nameless pangs… Other days, other dreams $ you have become subdued, 12 my springtime's high-flung fancies, and unto my poetic goblet I have admixed a lot of water. n8 Fragments of Onegin's Journey [xvill] Needful to me are other pictures: I like a sandy hillside slope, before a small isba two rowans, 4 a wicket gate, a broken fence, up in the sky gray clouds, before the thrash barn heaps of straw, and in the shelter of dense willows 8 a pond-the franchise of young ducks. I'm fond now of the balalaika and of the trepak's drunken stomping before the threshold of the tavern; 1 2 now my ideal is a housewife, my wishes, peace and "pot of shchi but big myself." [XIX] The other day, during a rainy spell, as I had dropped into the cattle yard Fie! Prosy divagations, 4 the Flemish School's variegated dross! Was I like that when I was blooming? Say, Fountain of Bahchisaray!

Were such the thoughts that to my mind 8 your endless purl suggested when silently in front of you Zarema I imagined?…

Midst the sumptuous deserted halls 12 after the lapse of three years, in my tracks in the same region wandering, Onegin remembered me.