× Ф. И. Тютчев

To Lily

Lily, Lily! I am sighing
With despair and hopeless woe.
I am tortured, I am dying,
And my soul has lost its glow,
But my love evoked no pity:
You consider me pathetic.
Keep on laughing: you are pretty
Even when unsympathetic.

Translated by Andrey Kneller

A.S. Pushkin. To Lily (“Lily, Lily! I am sighing...”). Translated by Andrey Kneller // Alexander Pushkin. Collected Works: Parallel Russian Text and English Translation.