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Title: Sonnets from the Crimea

Author: Adam Mickiewicz

Translator: Edna Worthley Underwood

Release Date: October 27, 2008 [EBook #27069]

Language: English

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Sonnets from the Crimea

By Adam Mickiewicz

Translated by
Edna Worthley Underwood

MCMXVII

Paul Elder and Company, Publisher
San Francisco

Copyright, 1917, by
Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco

CONTENTS

Adam Mickiewicz
A biographical sketch by Edna Worthley Underwood
The Ackerman Steppe
Becalmed
Mountains from the Keslov Steppe
Baktschi Serai
Baktschi Serai by Night
The Grave of Countess Potocka
The Graves of the Harem
Baydary
Alushta by Day
Alushta by Night
Tschatir Dagh (Mirza)
Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)
The Pass Across the Abyss in the Tschufut-Kale
(Mirza)
The Ruins of Balaclava
On Juda's Cliff

ADAM MICKIEWICZ
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

ADAM MICKIEWICZ

(1798-1855)

The last of the eighteenth century was an important period for Russia
and Poland, not only politically, but in letters and art. It marked the
birth of statesmen, patriots, poets and writers. It was into a Poland of
great names and greater activities that Adam Mickiewicz was born in
1798, as son of an impoverished family of the old nobility. Three years
before, the third and last partition of his native land had taken place,
and the signed documents had been hastened to Petersburg to make more
triumphant the birthday of the Great Catherine.

Just a few years before this (1792), Kosciusko had courageously led his
forty-five thousand valiant Poles in their brave defiance of an
overwhelming number of Cossacks and Russians. History had recorded the
bloody Turkish wars, the Pugatshev rebellion, the uprising of the
Zaporogian Cossacks and the Polish confederations. And wi