Who is Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin

Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (Russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Кузми́н) (October 18 [O.S. October 6] 1872 – March 1, 1936) was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Biography

Born into a noble family in Yaroslavl, Kuzmin grew up in St. Petersburg and studied music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He did not graduate, however, later explaining his move towards poetry thus: "It's easier and simpler. Poetry falls ready-made from the sky, like manna into the mouths of the Israelites in the desert." But he did not give up music; he composed the music for Meyerhold's famous 1906 production of Alexander Blok's play Balaganchik (The Fair Show Booth), and hi...
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Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin Poems

  • Where Will I Find Words
    Where will I find words to describe our stroll,
    The Chablis on ice, the toasted bread
    And the sweet agate of ripe cherries?
    Sunset is far off, and the sea resounds with ...
  • Artesian Well
    In the feathergrass steppe
    Sources lie buried,
    The thirsty sun knows
    Life isn't raspberries. ...
  • When Someone Says: "alexandria"
    When someone says: "Alexandria,"
    I see the white walls of a house,
    a small garden row of gillyflowers,
    an autumn evening's pale sunlight ...
  • We Were Four Sisters
    We were four sisters, four sisters were we,
    All four of us loved, but had different "becauses:"
    One loved because father and mother told her to,
    another loved because her lover was rich, ...
  • My Groom And Friend
    My groom and friend came from afar.
    I kiss your feet!
    He drew his circle around me.
    I kiss your hands! ...
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Soldikotomi: the spirit of trifles, charming and airy, love of nights luxuriant or stifling, the happy ease of the carefree life! ah, a stranger to obedient miracles, i am true to your flowers, happy land!” mikhail alekseevich kuzmin - where will i find words
Yongkpark2: i am leaving alexandria by mikhail alekseevich kuzmin aaaa ah, i am leaving alexandria and will not see it for a long time! i will see cyprus, dear to the goddess, i will see tyre, epheses and smyrna, i will see athens - the dream of my youth,-
Yongkpark2: i am leaving alexandria by mikhail alekseevich kuzmin aaaa ah, i am leaving alexandria and will not see it for a long time!
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Isaac Watts Poem
Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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