Russian Poetry
POEMS IN PROSE
| Download PDF |
Russian Literature – Russian Poetry – Children’s books – Ivan Turgenev – Poems – Obsolete Russian Words and their meaning
< < < The Visit
Two Brothers > > >
To-Morrow! To-Morrow!
How empty, and insipid, and insignificant is almost every day which we have lived through! How few traces it leaves behind it! In what a thoughtlessly-stupid manner have those hours flown past, one after another!
And, nevertheless, man desires to exist; he prizes life, he hopes in it, in himself, in the future…. Oh, what blessings he expects from the future!
And why does he imagine that other future days will not resemble the one which has just passed?
But he does not imagine this. On the whole, he is not fond of thinking—and it is well that he does not.
“There, now, to-morrow, to-morrow!” he comforts himself—until that “to-morrow” over-throws him into the grave.
Well—and once in the grave,—one ceases, willy-nilly, to think.
May, 1879.
Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood
< < < The Visit
Two Brothers > > >
Russian Literature – Russian Poetry – Children’s books – Ivan Turgenev – Poems – Obsolete Russian Words and their meaning
Copyright holders – Public Domain
| If you liked this article, subscribe , put likes, write comments! Share on social networks Find us on Facebook or Twitter |
- Poèmes et peinture, semaine du 4 Janvier 2026
- Poems and painting, Week of January 4, 2026
- Желаю вам всем счастливого Рождества!
- Bonne Année!
- С Новым Годом!
- Happy New Year!
© 2023 Akirill.com – All Rights Reserved
AKirill, Learn, apprenez, translation, traduction, livres bilingues, bilingual books 