1904. "Desolation" (Запустение). Znanye, Vol.1, 1904. As "By the Oka River" (Под Окой). "Solitude" (Одиночество). Znanye, Vol. IX, 1906. Dedicated to Pyotr Nilus. In 1910 Bunin's recital of the poem was recorded for a grammophone record. "A Shadow" (Тень). Mir Bozhy, 1903, No.11, November, untitled. "Doves" (Голуби). Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, the monthly version. 1903, No.11, November. "Dusk" (Сумерки). Znanye, Vol.I, 1904. "Before the Storm" (Перед бурей). Znanye, Vol.I, 1904. "In the Crimea Steppes" (В Крымских степях). Znanye, Vol.I, 1904, as "In Yevpatorian Steppes" (В Евпаторийских степях). 1904 "Jasmine" (Жасмин). Novoye Slovo, 1907, No.1, as Kazbek (Казбек). "The Pole Star" (Полярная звезда). Fakely anthology, as The Pole (Полюс) "It runs up in darkness..." (Набегает впотьмах...) Znanye, Vol.IX, 1906, as Life (Жизнь). "Crossroads" (Перекресток). Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, the monthly version'. 1904, No.11, untitled. "Balder" (Бальдер). Mir Bozhiy, 1906, No.7, July. "Lights of the Skies" (Огни небес). Mir Bozhiy, 1904, No.8, August, as The Extinct Stars (Угасшие звёзды). "Ruins" (Развалины). Pravda magazine, 1904, No.11, November. "The Slope" (Косогор). Russkaya Mysl, 1904, No.11, November, untitled. "The Flood" (Разлив). Mir Bozhy, 1904, No.9, September. "Fairytale" (Сказка). Pravda magazine, Moscow, 1904, No.1, January. "Roses" (Розы). Pravda magazine, 1904, No.6, June. "At the Lighthouse" (На маяке). Mir Bozhy, 1904, No.11, November, untitled. "In the Mountains" (В горах). Pravda magazine, 1904, No.2, February. "The Calm" (Штиль). Pravda magazine, 1904, No.12, December. "On the White Sands" (На белых песках). Mir Bozhy, 1904, No.11, November, untitled. "Samson" (Самсон). Mir Bozhy, 1904, No.12, December, as Blindness (Слепота). "Mountain Slope" (Склон гор). Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, the monthly version. 1904, No.8, August, untitled. "Sapsan" (Сапсан). Mir Bozhy, 1904, No.4, April. Subtitled: "The Poem" (Поэма). M.K.Kuprina-Yordanskaya remembered that Aleksander Kuprin liked this one a lot and eagerly published it in Mir Bozhy. The poem also impressed Maxim Gorky. "I see Gorky every day... During these days I’ve gave him the poetrymania bug, first killing him with Sapsan", Bunin wrote in a letter to A.M.Fyodorov on April 25, 1905, from Yalta. Aleksander Blok wrote: "Only the poet who's imbibed the Puskin verse with all of its exactness and simplicity could write such words about sapsan, the alleged bird of Evil... (Blok quoted 8 lines of the poem beginning with words: "It might have heard today..." ). 1905 "Russian Spring" (Русская весна). Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, the monthly version, 1905, No.3, March, as "The Spring". "The living room, through trees and dusty curtains..." (В гостиную, сквозь сад