You captured my imagination

And as for us... Playfull as childhood

and free as our unbridled youth,

wise with the wisdom of experience

and talkative as Veuve Clicquot,

you chattered with me all night long,

you captured my imagination,

and here is my commemoration

of fresh-picked flowers for your tomb.

Excerto do poema On the death of Pushkin's old nurse

Nicolay Yazykov

in Chapter II - Around Pushkin

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

Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski