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AUTUMN
Boris Pasternak
I have let my household disperse,
My dear ones have long been apart,
And a familiar loneliness
Fills all of nature and all my heart.
Here I am with you in the lodge.
No one walks thorugh the woods these days.
As in the old song, undergrowth
Has almost hidden the forest ways.
Forlornly, the timber walls
Look down on the two of us here.
We did not promise to leap obstacles,
We shall fall at last in the clear.
We shall sit down from one till three,
You with embroidery, I deep
In a book, and at dawn shall not see
When we kiss each other to sleep.
More richly and more recklessly,
Leaves, leaves, give tongue and whirl away,
Fill yesterday's cup of bitterness
With the sadness of today.
Impulse, enchantment, beauty!
Let's dissolve in September wind
And enter the rustle of autumn!
Be still, or go out of your mind!
As the coppice lets slip its leaves,
You let your dress slip rustling down
And throw yourself into my arms
In your silk-tasselled dressing gown.
You are my joy on the brink
Of disaster, when life becomes
A plague, and beauty is daring,
And draws us into each other's arms.
© 1947 by Boris Pasternak
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Autumn Poetry Thread consuelo 09/30/03 09:02 AM Re: Autumn Poetry Thread sjmaxq 09/30/03 09:41 AM Re: Autumn Poetry Thread WhitmanO'Neill 09/30/03 12:50 PM For the down-unders, Jackie 09/30/03 02:43 PM For me Jackie 09/30/03 02:45 PM To all of you, with love Jackie 10/07/03 01:04 AM Re: Autumn Poetry Thread WhitmanO'Neill 10/06/03 02:50 AM Re: Autumn Poetry Thread consuelo 10/08/03 03:44 PM Re: Autumn Poetry Thread consuelo 10/08/03 04:12 PM I'm in a mood, you know consuelo 10/08/03 04:52 PM Re: I'm in a mood, you know consuelo 10/08/03 05:33 PM
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