The Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Oh my dear maple
Sergei Yesenin (4 Oct. 1895 – 27 Dec. 1925)
Oh my dear maple, frozen stiff and bare,
Why do you stand bending in the blizzard there?
Have you seen a vision? Have you heard a babble?
Just like you are out for an idle ramble.
Like a tipsy [...]
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Calendar Wisdom.
For all these (3!) months I have not done well at all. All of these months I have not succeeded, even in March when I decided to stick to “Success” and “supposedly” made resolutions. No, to be more specific, I made resolutions; the only problem was I did not carry them through. But [...]
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Robert Bridges (1844 – 1930)
Triolet
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master;
Of more than common friendliness
When first we met we did not guess.
Who could foretell this sore distress,
This irretrievable disaster
When first we met – We did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
February
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,
Race through the noise of bells and wheels
To where the ink and all you grieving
Are muffled when the rain shower falls.
To where, like pears [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
Winter’s Night
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]
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