Bored And Sad

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)



It's boring and sad, and there's no one around
In times of my spirit's travail...
Desires!...What use is our vain and eternal desire?..
While years pass on by - all the best years!

To love...but love whom?.. a short love is vexing,
And permanent love's just a myth.
Perhaps look within? - The past's left no trace:
All trivial, joys and distress...

What good are the passions? For sooner or later
Their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard,-
Is stupid and empty - a joke...

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXAX XXXX AXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 524
Words 98
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. more…

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  • poppyl.74928
    Here is my translation:

    And it’s sick and sad and with whom to share pain

    When there is melancholy in soul?

    Yes, desires! What’s use of desiring forever in vain,

    When years pass by, the best years of all?

    To love! But whom? You won’t waste your heart on a moment

    And it cannot last forever.

    Gazing inside – Of the past there is nothing left,

    Neither sadness nor joy none whatsoever.

    And passions? That sweet madness, sooner or later

    Before the voice of reason will become a waste,

    And life when looking around with a scrutiny greater

    Is nothing but a joke– stupid and of a poor taste.

    (Bozica Cvjetkovic)
     
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