I Thought You Had Forgotten...
Alexander Pushkin
I thought you had forgotten, heart,
Your ability to suffer pain.
That easy gift would come, I thought,
No more again! No more again!
Gone were the raptures and the griefs
And the dreams you half-believed...
But now I know, while beauty lives
so long will live my power to grieve.
1835. Translation: Babette Deutsch.
