The sting of disappointment on your face!

Are you rich like the farmer who sowed

in hope? Like him, the seed you scattered

and you too cherished golden dreams that showed

you rich rewards far in the future...

Now you behold that day; greet it with pride

and count your painful acquisitions!

Alas, your passions, your dreams, your arduous road

are buried in scorn, and your condition

is the soul's irresistible disgrace,

the sting of disappointment on your face!

Excerto do poema Autumn

Yevgeny Baratynsky

in Chapter II - Around Pushkin

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,

Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski