Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky Poems

Tell me what's happening to me?
Why is my heart beating so fervently?
why has this madness, like a wave,
Broken through the rock of habit?
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In midst of waves, there are the silver beads
And scraped by time paints of the white enamel …
I so like the morns which autumn breeds,
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My eyes forgot the heavens’ blue,
To them the sun’s dust is not gold,
But I live just one substance through,
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Among the worlds, the sparkling spheres,
The name of One Star only I repeat...
It's not because I love Her dearly
But just because I pine with others.
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The life’s chance and creative spirit
United painfully in you,
And midst the beauty’s hitting views
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Has time come? I’m fully ready.
If we’ve sinned – there’s no a chance…
We – to prisons, they – to gladness…
Give to children – sun and grass!
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S. B. f-Shtein
There is such love that’s similar to smoke:
If it is bound – it’s intoxicating,
Receiving freedom – vanished, not awaiting…
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In different clearness of rays,
In addling amalgam of visions
We always live in world’s things’ reign
With its triad of space division.
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My life’s burden’s for me light and shone,
I won’t you to be baffled or wound;
And not God, who had thought on a stone –
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