(10 February 1890 - 30 May 1960 / Moscow)

poet Boris Pasternak
#200 on top 500 poets

Poems of Boris Pasternak

1. ‘February. Take ink and weep,’ 4/3/2010
2. ‘Like a brazier’s bronze cinders,’ 4/3/2010
3. ‘My sister – Life’s overflowing today’ 4/3/2010
4. 1918 4/3/2010
5. A Dream 4/3/2010
6. A Sultrier Dawn 4/3/2010
7. A tall, strapping shot, you, considerate hunter... 4/3/2010
8. A Walts With a Tear in It 4/3/2010
9. About These Poems 4/3/2010
10. After the Interval 4/3/2010
11. After The Storm 4/3/2010
12. August 4/3/2010
13. Autumn 4/3/2010
14. Autumn Frost 4/3/2010
15. Bad Days 4/3/2010
16. Beloved, with the spent and sickly fumes... 4/3/2010
17. Black spring! Pick up your pen, and weeping... 4/3/2010
18. Change 4/3/2010
19. Confession 4/3/2010
20. Craft 4/3/2010

Hops

Beneath the willow wound round with ivy
we take cover from the worst
of the storm, with a greatcoat round
our shoulders and my hands around your waist.

I've got it wrong. That isn't ivy
entwined in the bushes round
the wood, but hops. You intoxicate me!
Let's spread the greatcoat on the ground.

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