Pushkin Translation

I Loved You

by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

loose translation by Michael R. Burch

 

I loved you ... perhaps I love you still ...

perhaps for a while such emotions may remain.

But please don’t let my feelings trouble you;

I do not wish to cause you further pain.

 

I loved you ... thus the hopelessness I knew ...

The jealousy, the diffidence, the pain

resulted in two hearts so wholly true

the gods might grant us leave to love again.