And bored and sad ...

And bored and sad, and no one to give
In a moment of spiritual adversity ...
Desires! .. What is the use of vain and eternal desire? ..
And the years pass - all the best years!
To love ... But whom? .. At the time - it is not worth the effort,
And eternally you can not love.
Do you look in yourself? - there is no trace of the past:
And joy, and torment, and everything there is insignificant ...
What passions? - because their sweet illness is too late or too late
Disappear at the word of reason;
And life, as you look with cold attention around -
Such an empty and stupid joke ...

1840

VG Belinsky wrote about this poem: "And bored and sad" from all the plays Lermontov drew a special dislike of the old generation.

Strange people! It all seems to them that poetry must be invented, and not be priestess of truth, embroidered with trinkets, and not rattled with truth! "(Belinsky, vol. IV, p. 527).

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