Tsvetaeva's Works Online

English translations

• Speaking in Tongues, The Magazine of Literary Translation, includes one translation by Boris Leyvi ('I like it that you're not diseased by me'), two by Maya Jouravel ('Here's the window light ...' and 'Two suns cool down ...') and two by Alex Sitnitsky ('Still yesterday my eyes met yours ...' and 'Psyche'). The site is in both Russian and English.

• Edward Bonver maintains a page with original translations by several different people.

• Frank A. Anderton's page includes his own translation of 'An Attempt at Jealousy' (it's about halfway down the page; there are several other good translations of Russian poetry and prose, as well).

• Nina Kossman won a grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts to translate Tsvetaeva's poetry. A sample translation ('I am happy to live ...') is here.

• The Wise Women's Web includes an excerpt from 'Poem of the End' translated by the site's editor, Daniela Gioseffi.

• And I Will Never Be the Little Homemaker, an interesting personal homepage from Sweden, includes Elaine Feinstein's translation of 'Where Does This Tenderness Come From?'

Original Russian versions

• This site has a large selection of Tsvetaeva's poetry in Russian.

• Here's a selection of poems from an online Russian textbook.

• Another Russian poem