Sergei Yesenin's best-known lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: Face to face / you cannot see a face. / Great things are seen from a distance. · The golden grove has fallen silent, / with its merry birch-tree tongue. · I do not regret, I do not call, I do not weep: / everything will pass like smoke from white apple trees.. (Updated Feb 5, 2024.)
"I do not regret, I do not call, I do not weep", "Are you still alive, my old woman?" and "Great things are seen from a distance": the lines by Sergei Yesenin that Russians know by heart, from "The Birch Tree" (1913) to "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye", with title and year.
Automatically translated (original in Русский). See the original
Top 15
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Face to face / you cannot see a face. / Great things are seen from a distance.
Poem "Letter to a Woman", 1924.
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The golden grove has fallen silent, / with its merry birch-tree tongue.
Poem "The golden grove has stopped talking…", 1924.
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I do not regret, I do not call, I do not weep: / everything will pass like smoke from white apple trees.
Poem "I do not regret, I do not call, I do not weep…", 1921.
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4
Are you still alive, my old woman? / I am alive too. Greetings to you, greetings!
Poem "Letter to My Mother", 1924.
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5
If the holy host should cry: / "Leave Rus, come live in paradise!" / I will say: "I need no paradise, / give me my homeland."
Poem "Hail, Rus, my native land…", 1914.
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6
The white birch tree / beneath my window / has covered itself in snow / as if in silver.
Poem "The Birch Tree", 1913.
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7
Shagane, my Shagane! / Is it because I am from the north…
Poem "Shagane, my Shagane!", 1924.
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8
My fallen maple, my frozen maple, / why do you stand stooping in the white blizzard?
Poem "My fallen maple…", 1925.
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9
Only one amusement is left to me: / fingers in my mouth and a cheerful whistle.
Poem "Only one amusement is left to me…", 1923.
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10
Though another has drunk you dry, / I still have, I still have / the glassy smoke of your hair / and the autumn weariness of your eyes.
Poem "Though you were drunk by another…", 1923.
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11
If I had not been a poet, / I would probably have been a swindler and a thief.
Poem "Every living thing is marked…", 1922.
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12
So few roads travelled, / so many mistakes made.
Poem "It makes me sad to look at you…", 1923.
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13
And I was obscene and made scandals / so as to burn more brightly.
Poem "Only one amusement is left to me…", 1923.
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14
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. / My dear, you are in my heart.
Poem "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye…", 1925.
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15
In this life there is nothing new in dying, / but living, of course, is no newer.
Poem "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye…", 1925.
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