Poetry Tuesday!: “Uznik” (“The Prisoner”) by Aleksandr Pushkin

Here’s “Узник” (“Uznik”, “The Prisoner” or “The Captive”) (1822) by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. “The Pulley” by George Herbert
3. “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire
4. “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
6. “Лотова жена” (“Lotova zhena”, “Lot’s wife”) by Anna Akhmatova
7. “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
8. “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
9. “Les Djinns” by Victor Hugo
10. “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger
11. “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman

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