Arts & Sciences
Fame
Translated by Ivan Panin (1888) · From Poems (Panin, 1888)
Arts & Sciences
Blessed who to himself has kept
His creation highest of the soul,
And from his fellows as from the graves
Expected not appreciation!
Blessed he who in silence sang
And the crown of fame not wearing,
By mob despised and forgotten,
Forsaken nameless has the world!
Deceiver greater than dreams of hope,
What is fame? The adorer's whisper?
Or the boor's persecution?
Or the rapture of the fool?
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MLA
Pushkin, Alexander. “Fame.” Translated by Ivan Panin. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pushkin/59/.
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Pushkin, Alexander. “Fame.” Translated by Ivan Panin. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pushkin/59/.
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