A keresés eredménye

Impennate Spirit, Hostage of the Ground...

Impennate spirit, hostage of the ground,
Itself forgotten and forgotten god...
It's just a dream - like an elated sound
You rise again away from earthly troubles' squad.
 
An indistinct beam of familiar lustre,
A feeble echo of unearthly song, -
And former world in its unfading fluster
Appears yet again before the soul.
 
A dream - awakened from the deep sleep, risen,
You will again await with painful gloom
A fleeting glimpse of ghostly foreign vision,
An echo of divine harmonic flume.
 
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Dear Friend, How Can't You See...

Dear friend, how can't you see that
Everything we see around's
Just a shadow, just an image
Of the things the eyes can't fathom?
 
Dear friend, how can't you hear
That the noisy daily dances're
Just an echo, garbled, blear,
Of triumphant consonances?
 
How can't you perceive, my lover,
That just one thing isn't fleeting -
Just what one heart to another
Whispers in a silent greeting?
 
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The Autumn Smile Illuminates My Sad Face...

The autumn smile illuminates my sad face -
It's brighter than the vivid heaven's laugh.
The sunbeam flashes through the crowds, shapeless
And vague, then suddenly it's gone like gaffe.
 
Cry, autumn, cry, - I'm joyful from your tears!
Oh trembling forest, send your cries to skies!
Oh tempest, growl your threats, forget your fears,
I want them wasted on Earth's bosom cries!
 
The empress of the seas, the land and heavens!
I'm hearing you through all this dreary doom,
Behold! Your gaze illuminated heaven,
Attempting to dispel the hostile gloom.
 
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Although The Early Autumn Laughs At Me Without Clue...

Although the early autumn laughs at me without clue,
Although my head and temples're silvered by the frost, -
With vernal trembling I am standing still before you,
I'm full of joy, yet in young yearning I am lost.
 
And I don't want to part with your endearing image,
I've had enough of losses, struggles, and pursuits.
I now consider all my life a tale unfinished,
Although it is so hard to don its heavy suits.
 
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Lo, Just A Year Ago - With Bitter Anguish...

Lo, just a year ago - with bitter anguish,
In mad nostalgia I was leaving you,
It seemed to me: for ages I would languish,
For I have lost both life and joy with you.
 
A year have passed - in torment of oblivion
You disappeared as longtime distant dream,
And only sometimes I recall as trivia
The bygone days, when I saw nightly dreams.
 
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Is That Why The Heart Needs One Thing...

Is that why the heart needs one thing,
Just one thing to love and live,
Is that why no pleasure, nothing
One gets if he doesn't give.
 
Is it not because our pathways
Have been drawn close by the fate,
And with you alone I always
Could find happiness, my mate, -
 
For one reason or another, -
But in you, in you alone
My heart, my life, my mind drowned
Irretrievably like stone.
 
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Although We Are Forever Chained To Strange Shores...

Although we are forever chained to strange shores
With fetters - strong, invisible to eyes,
Yet, even chained, we must complete on all fours
The circle, gods have drawn for us in skies.
 
Lo! Everything, that yields to higher powers,
Conducts the will of others with its own,
And under stolid mask of every substance
The flame - divine light! - everywhere burns.
 
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The Fatal Denouement Of Joyless Love And Passion!..

The fatal denouement of joyless love and passion!
Not quiet sadness but an hour of death throe...
Though life's an evil hoax, yet when the heart dies, crashing,
It yearns and hurts and aches, and at the Eden's threshold
It still burns with the flame, that went out long ago.
 
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Skeptic

At dusk and early in the morning,
In gloomy midnight, during day,
In heat and cold, and when it's storming
I waggle head in deep dismay!
I drop my eyes to lowly ground,
Then I don't take them off the sky,
I hark to rustling treetops' sound -
Surmise what my fate brings and why.
What path in life should I choose rightly?
Whom should I love, what should I seek?
Go to the church - to pray Almighty,
Or to the woods - to kill the meek?
 
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My Heart Is Singing An Old Song To Me...

My heart is singing an old song to me,
Ancient night dreams resurrect in my visions,
Flowers start blooming in meadows elysian,
Sound of magical voice's calling me.
 
Marvelous tale is alive before me,
And once again I believe in this tale pull...
Heart feels so sweet, yet the feeling is painful.
Soul senses breath of unearthly spring breeze.
 
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No More Questions Remain, And For Words There's No Need...

No more questions remain, and for words there's no need,
I am rushing to you, like a stream to the sea,
Dear image I seek - without thoughts, without doubts,
I know only one thing - I am madly in love.
 
In the dawn's scarlet glow I but you recognize,
It's your smile that I see in the shine of the skies,
When without you I am predestined to die,
As bright star above you I will burn in the sky.
 
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