Potential Titles: Mikhail Lermontov

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To wanderer lone a useful guide - Lermontof "The Dagger" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Iron pick will tear a pathway - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Spent in slumber just nine hundred years - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Streaming forth like molten copper - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

In their happy talk not joining - Lermontof "Dream" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

No friend to ease the heart's pain - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Their malady sweet will vanish - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

When the circle of cold contemplation's complete - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Reason over it no victory knows - Lermontof "My Native Land" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

When sorrows crowd the soul - Lermontof "Prayer [In moments of life's trial]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

As if in storms he'd find repose - Lermontof "The Voyage" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Will exact in grief and tears his pay - Lermontof "Why" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]


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