Day Comes and Goes
Translated by Vera Rich
Day comes and goes, night comes and goes...
Sinking your head in hands clasped tight,
You wonder why there still comes no
Apostle of wisdom, truth and right.
1860, St. Petersburg
- The Mighty Dnieper (excerpt)
- The River to the Blue Sea Flows…
- Dumka
- The Night of Taras
- Katerina
- Perebendya
- Topolia (The Poplar)
- Ivan Pidkova
- O My Thoughts, My Heartfelt Thoughts
- Bandura Player, Eagle Grey
- Haidamaki
- The Boat
- Hamaliya
- The Plundered Grave
- The Maiden's Nights
- Khustina - The Betrothal Kerchief
- Envy not the Man of Wealth
- Don't Wed
- The Heretic
- Subotiv (a sequel to "The Great Mound")
- The Servant Woman
- The Caucasus
- To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not In Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn My Friendly Epistle
- My Friendly Epistle
- From Day To Day...
- My Testament
- The Lily
- In Prison: III It Makes No Difference To Me
- In Prison: IV Leave Not Your Dear Mother
- In Prison: V Kalina (The Cranberry)
- In Prison: VI The Three Pathways
- In Prison: VII To N. Kostomarov
- In Prison: VIII A Spring Evening
- In Prison: X 'Tis Hard To Bear The Yoke
- In Prison XI -The Reaper
- Lines From "The Princess"
- Hymn Of Exile
- I Was Thirteen
- The Monk
- Drowsy The Waves
- Thoughts of Mine
- That Mighty Valley
- On Easter Day, On The Straw
- A Cottage
- If You But Knew
- The Half-Wit
- Fate
- The Muse
- To The Goddess Of Fame
- I Am Not Unwell
- To Marko Vovchok (For Remembrance, January 24, 1859)
- Isaiah. Chapter 35 (An Imitation)
- Oak-Grove, Darkly-Shadowed Spinney
- Prayer
- Oh Shinning World
- To Likera (In Memory of August 5, 1860)
- A Dream (To Marko Vovchok)
- Old Archimedes Drank No Wine
- My Years of Youth Have Passed Away
- Day Comes and Goes
- Surely The Time Has Come
Poem Index
- The Mighty Dnieper (excerpt)
- The River to the Blue Sea Flows…
- Dumka
- The Night of Taras
- Katerina
- Perebendya
- Topolia (The Poplar)
- Ivan Pidkova
- O My Thoughts, My Heartfelt Thoughts
- Bandura Player, Eagle Grey
- Haidamaki
- The Boat
- Hamaliya
- The Plundered Grave
- The Maiden's Nights
- Khustina - The Betrothal Kerchief
- Envy not the Man of Wealth
- Don't Wed
- The Heretic
- Subotiv (a sequel to "The Great Mound")
- The Servant Woman
- The Caucasus
- To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not In Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn My Friendly Epistle
- My Friendly Epistle
- From Day To Day...
- My Testament
- The Lily
- In Prison: III It Makes No Difference To Me
- In Prison: IV Leave Not Your Dear Mother
- In Prison: V Kalina (The Cranberry)
- In Prison: VI The Three Pathways
- In Prison: VII To N. Kostomarov
- In Prison: VIII A Spring Evening
- In Prison: X 'Tis Hard To Bear The Yoke
- In Prison XI -The Reaper
- Lines From "The Princess"
- Hymn Of Exile
- I Was Thirteen
- The Monk
- Drowsy The Waves
- Thoughts of Mine
- That Mighty Valley
- On Easter Day, On The Straw
- A Cottage
- If You But Knew
- The Half-Wit
- Fate
- The Muse
- To The Goddess Of Fame
- I Am Not Unwell
- To Marko Vovchok (For Remembrance, January 24, 1859)
- Isaiah. Chapter 35 (An Imitation)
- Oak-Grove, Darkly-Shadowed Spinney
- Prayer
- Oh Shinning World
- To Likera (In Memory of August 5, 1860)
- A Dream (To Marko Vovchok)
- Old Archimedes Drank No Wine
- My Years of Youth Have Passed Away
- Day Comes and Goes
- Surely The Time Has Come