For a romantic heart, the poems of the great Russian poet Sergey Yesenin are what settles into the soul like a song—and stays with you forever. A aching tone, piercing confessional sincerity, and a deep penetration into the secret depths of the soul—these are exactly the words that resonate with the reader’s thoughts and feelings. Let’s be honest: each of us is ready to claim Yesenin’s lines as our own—as if our own feelings had found the ability to speak about the beautiful. During his lifetime, Yesenin published thirty volumes of poetry and collections: his first book came out when the poet was barely twenty, and the last poem he wrote in his own blood was recorded by him just a little over ten years later. “May you be blessed forever, that—”