Михаил Лермонтов И скучно и грустно на английском

It's boring and sad, and there is no one to lend a hand
At a time, when a soul' distress comes…
The wishes!.. what’s use of wishing in vain with no end?..
And the years go by — all the years pass, the best ones!

To love... but who?.. for some time — it is not worth the effort,
It doesn't work to love forever.
If to look inside? — there isn't a trace of the past left:
All of these mean nothing: joy, torment, endeavor…

What passions for? — sooner or later, their sweet disease
Will disappear at a word of mind;
And life, if you look with cold regard around, what it is, —
An empty and stupid joke, or some of this kind…

14-15 September, 2024

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Портрет: Русский поэт Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов в вицмундире Лейб-гвардии Гусарского полка Portrait: Russian poet Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
Автор: Пётр Захаров-Чеченец Author: Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets
Дата (Date): 1834
Источник: Википедия From Wikimedia Commons