Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky Pain Poems

  • 1.
    We almost lost our minds through that mad sky:
    It blinds us with its fire or its snow,
    And, baring teeth, like any beast of wild,
    Old winter hides in April very slow.
    ...
  • 2.
    What heavy, dark delirium!
    What dim and moonlit heights!
    To touch the violin for years
    And not to know the strings by light!
    ...
  • 3.
    How dark and heavyâ??s the deliriumâ??s embrace!
    How theyâ??re turbid under moon â?? the heights!
    To have touched Violin for so many years
    And not distinguish those Strings in light!
    ...
  • 4.
    My lifeâ??s burdenâ??s for me light and shone,
    I wonâ??t you to be baffled or wound;
    And not God, who had thought on a stone â??
    I do pity the stone heâ??s found.
    ...
  • 5.
    My eyes forgot the heavens- blue,
    To them the sun-s dust is not gold,
    But I live just one substance through,
    That-s to the amethyst-s planes owned.
    ...
Total 5 Pain Poems by Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky

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