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«My Izmaraigd» is a collection of poems by Ivan Franko, published on 15 November 1898 in Lviv. A collection of moral and ethical proverbs («Parenetikon») and parables and legends written on the basis of ancient parables, legends, and teachings contained in ancient Russian manuscripts. In these poems, the poet reflects on the meaning of life and death, on what faith, love, beauty, friendship, gratitude, obedience, true value, foolishness, joy and sorrow, and fasting are. The collection opens with Franko's reflections (the cycle «Bows») on the poet's attitude to the fate of his native land, his own glory («I am a son of the people who are going up, though I was locked in a cellar») and dreams-memories of the female ideal («Mine is not mine», «Remembrance»). The cycle contains Franko's famous responses to Yuriy Romanchuk (&The Saddleback) and V. Shchurat (&The Decadent) to their accusations in the press that the author of The Stonemasons lacked patriotism or had decadent moods. The collection ends with cycles-pictures of folk life, in which the poet depicts the needy state of the then Galician villages ("In the Villages") and the fate of the first emigrants ("To Brazil").