M spirit's call, brought peace to me;

You saved me-saved my treasured freedom,

Of fiery youth the deity!

Far from the social whirl, the Neva

Behind me left, forgotten even

By rumour, here am I where loom

Caucasian peaks in prideful gloom.

Atop high steeps, mid downward tumbling

Cascades and cataracts of stone,

I stand and drink it all in dumbly,

And revel, to reflection prone,

In nature's dark and savage beauty;

To wounding thought my soul's still wed,

Within it sadness lives, deep-rooted,

But the poetic fires are dead,

In vain I seek for inspiration:

Gone is the blithe and happy time

Of love, of merry dreams, of rhyme,

Of all that filled me with elation.

Sweet rapture's span has not been long,

Flown from me has the Muse of song,

Of softly spoken incantation....

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

A PRESENTIMENT.

A STUDY.

A WINTER MORNING.

A WISH.

ANCIENT RUSSIAN SONG.

CONSOLATION.

DEATH-THOUGHTS.

DESPAIR.

DROWNED.

ELEGY.

ELEGY: HAPPY WHO TO HIMSELF CONFESS.

ELEGY: HUSHED I SOON SHALL BE.

ELEGY: THE EXTINGUISHED JOY OF CRAZY YEARS.

FAME.

FIRST LOVE.

FRIENDSHIP.

GOD GRANT, MY REASON NE'ER BETRAY ME HOME-SICKNESS.

HYMN TO FORCE.

I HAVE OUTLIVED MY EVERY WISH.

IN AN ALBUM.

IN VAIN, DEAR FRIEND.

INSANITY.

INSPIRING LOVE.

INVOCATION.

JEALOUSY.

LOVE.

LOVE AND FREEDOM.

LOVE'S DEBT MON PORTRAIT.

MY MONUMENT.