Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A RUSSIAN SONG (1), by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poet's Biography First Line: Lace and roses in the forest morning shine Last Line: Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians | ||||||||
Lace and roses in the forest morning shine, Shrewdly the small spider climbs his cobweb line. Dews are diamonding and blooming faery-bright. What a golden air! What beauty! Oh, what light! It is good to wander through the dawn-shot rye, Good to see a bird, a toad, a dragon-fly; Hear the sleepy crowing of the noisy cock, And to laugh at echo, and to hear her mock. Ah, I love in vain my morning voice to hurl, Ah, off in the birches, but to glimpse a girl, Glimpse, and leaning on the tangled fence, to chase Dawn's unwilling shadows from her morning face. Ah, to wake her from her half-surrendered sleep, Tell her of my new-sprung dreams, that lift and leap, Hug her trembling breasts that press against my heart, Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE by IGOR SEVERIANIN SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE by IGOR SEVERIANIN AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND by ANDREW MARVELL |
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