Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont Poems

I entered this world to see the sun
And the blue horizon.
I entered this world to see the sun
And the towering mountains.

I entered this world ...
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We are blessed hordes of freely roaming Scythians,
More than anything we value freedom.
Having quit the castle of Olvia with its wrought griffins,
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In my dreams I pursued the fleeting shadows
The fleeting shadows of the darkening day,
I climbed the tower and the staircase trembled,
The stairca ...
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The sky is heavy with a molten feast --
The flaming streams have come to distant deeps.
The branches laze in veils of haze -- so soon!
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I am the refinement of sluggish Russian speech,
Next to me other poets are primeval,
I was the first to divert these words
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Mine is not a wisdom that would suit others,
I only put the fleeting into verse.
In every fleeting thing I see worlds
Full of fickle, colorful pla ...
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Evening. Seashore. A sighing wind.
Majestic waves roar.
A storm is near. A black barque,
Stranger to charm, batters the shore.
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