Twenty-Two Poems

By Pasternak, Boris

Description
Classic Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: February. Take ink and weep, February. Take ink and weep, write February as you?re sobbing, while black Spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing. Take a cab. For a clutch of copecks, through bell-towers? and wheel noise, go where the rain-storm?s din breaks, greater than crying or ink employs. Where rooks in thousands falling, like charred pears from the skies, drop down into puddles, bringing cold grief to the depths of eyes. Below, the black shows through, and the wind?s furrowed with cries: the more freely, the more truly then, sobbing verse is realized.

Table of Contents
Contents ‘February. Take ink and weep,’ ........................................5 ‘Like a brazier’s bronze cinders,’......................................6 Winter Sky ........................................................................7 Spring................................................................................8 Swifts ................................................................................9 ‘My sister – Life’s overflowing today,’ ..........................10 The Weeping Garden ......................................................12 Crossed Oars ...................................................................13 Sparrow Hills ..................................................................14 The Steppe ......................................................................15 Storm, Momentary, Forever............................................18 In the Wood ....................................................................19 Spasskoe..........................................................................21 For Anna Akhmatova......................................................23 Winter Nears. ..................................................................26 Hamlet.............................................................................28 Storm-Wind ....................................................................29 Khmel (Hops, and Intoxication)......................................30 The Earth.........................................................................31 Winter Night ...................................................................33 The Wind ........................................................................36 Snow Is Falling ...............................................................42 Index by First Line..........................................................45