Mikhail Lermontov on Mother's Day
1814–1841 Russia
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Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..
The Demon (1830)
I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
I want to love, I want to pray,
I want to believe in good.
The Demon (1830)
No, it is not you I love so ardently,
The glitter of your beauty is not for me:
I love in you my past suffering
And my perished youth.
Women love only those whom they do not know!
A Hero of Our Time (1840)
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
A Hero of Our Time (1840)