Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Poems Translated by Dmitri Nabokov

MUSIC
REVOLUTION
PETER IN HOLLAND
THE LAST SUPPER
EASTER
THE RULER
THE GLASSES OF ST. JOSEPH
“LIKE PALLID DAWN, MY POETRY SOUNDS GENTLY”
SHAKESPEARE
CUBES
ST. PETERSBURG
EVENING
FORTUNE-TELLING
THE DEMON
THE SKATER
SPRING
DREAM
THE TRAIN WRECK
UT PICTURA POESIS
A TRIFLE
THE UNIVERSITY POEM
BUTTERFLIES
TOLSTOY
“I HAVE NO NEED, FOR MY NOCTURNAL TRAVELS”
TO THE GRAPEFRUIT
THE HAWKMOTH
“FORTY-THREE YEARS, FORTY-FOUR YEARS MAYBE”
TO VÉRA

The Russian Poems from Poems and Problems

THE RAIN HAS FLOWN
TO LIBERTY
I STILL KEEP MUTE
HOTEL ROOM
PROVENCE
LA BONNE LORRAINE
THE BLAZON
THE MOTHER
I LIKE THAT MOUNTAIN
THE DREAM
THE SNAPSHOT
IN PARADISE
THE EXECUTION
FOR HAPPINESS THE LOVER CANNOT SLEEP
LILITH
THE MUSE
SOFT SOUND
SNOW
THE FORMULA
AN UNFINISHED DRAFT
EVENING ON A VACANT LOT
THE MADMAN
HOW I LOVE YOU
L’INCONNUE DE LA SEINE
AT SUNSET
WE SO FIRMLY BELIEVED
WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT
THE POETS
TO RUSSIA
OCULUS
FAME
THE PARIS POEM
NO MATTER HOW
ON RULERS
TO PRINCE S. M. KACHURIN
A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER
IRREGULAR IAMBICS
WHAT IS THE EVIL DEED
FROM THE GRAY NORTH

The English Poems from Poems and Problems

A LITERARY DINNER
THE REFRIGERATOR AWAKES
A DISCOVERY
THE POEM
AN EVENING OF RUSSIAN POETRY
THE ROOM
VOLUPTATES TACTIONUM
RESTORATION
THE POPLAR
LINES WRITTEN IN OREGON
ODE TO A MODEL
ON TRANSLATING “EUGENE ONEGIN”
RAIN
THE BALLAD OF LONGWOOD GLEN

English Poems Not Included in Poems and Problems

HOME
REMEMBRANCE
THE RUSSIAN SONG
SOFTEST OF TONGUES
EXILE
A POEM
DREAM
DANDELIONS
LUNAR LINES