彼のポエム、英語では"I Come Out To the Path, Alone..."(1841)いいます。彼の死の直前に書かれた作品です。行くすえの希望なき悲嘆と孤独に満ちあふれた作品です。同時に、人生の栄華とその発展を示した作品思います。これ、後世の作詞家に多大な影響を与えている理由から、彼の大作思います。
作曲は、国内外と有名な作曲家Elizaveta Shashinaです。この彼女のロマンス("Vyhoju odin ya na dorogu" ("I Come Out To the Path, Alone..."))は1861年に発表されたもんです。で、すぐに、国民的な音楽となりはりました。その悲しみに満ちたメロディーと美の極致をも示すハーモニーに心時めくでしょか。
The Russian text by Mikhail Lermontov 1841:
Vyhozhu odin ya na dorogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnistiy put` blestit; Noch' tiha. Pustynya vnemlet Bogu, I zvezda s zvezdoyu govorit.
V nebesah torjestvenno i chudno! Spit semlya v siyan'e golubom... Chto je mne tak bol'no i tak trudno? Zhdu l' chego? Zhaleyu li o chyom?
Uj ne zhdu ot zhisni nichego ya, I ne zhal' mne proshlogo nichut'; Ya ishu svobody i pokoya! Ya b hotel sabyt'sya i sasnut'!
No ne tem holodnym snom mogily... Ya b zhelal naveki tak sasnut', Chtob v grudi dremali zhisni sily, Chtob dysha vsdymalas' tiho grud';
Chtob vsyu noch', ves' den' moy sluh leleya, Pro lyubov' mne sladkiy golos pel, NAdo mnoy chtob vechno seleneya Tyomniy dub sklonyalsya i shumel.
"I Come Out To the Path..."
I come out to the path, alone, Night and wildness are referred to God, Through the mist, the road gleams with stone, Stars are speaking in the shinning lot.
There is grave and wonderful in heaven; Earth is sleeping in a pale-blue light... Why is then my heart such pined and heavy? Is it waiting or regretting plight?
I expect that nothing more goes, And for past I do not have regret, I wish only freedom and repose, I would fall asleep and all forget...
I would like to fall asleep forever, But without cold sleep of death: Let my breast be full of dozing fervor For the life, and heave in gentle breath;
So that enchanting voice would ready Day and night to sing to me of love, And the oak, evergreen and shady, Would decline to me and rustle above.