Alexander Pushkin

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A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say-
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Alexander Pushkin

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Topic

Relationship challenges Love

Author

Alexander Pushkin

Source

Eugene Onegin

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Russian

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ [Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse]. St. Petersburg: Alexandr Smirdin, 1833, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin, translated by James E. Falen. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry;
From behind them pale moonlight
Flickers where the snowflakes hurry.
Dark the sky and dark the night.

Alexander Pushkin

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Topic

Storms Weather

Author

Alexander Pushkin

Source

Devils

Medium

Poem

Language

Russian

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Devils. c. 1830.

Current Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. "Demons (1830)." Alexander Pushkin: Selected Poetry, translated by Antony Wood. Penguin Classics, 2020.