It's spring, I leave a street where poplars...

Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)



It's spring, I leave a street where poplars are astonished,
Where distance is alarmed and the house fears it may fall.
Where air is blue just like the linen bundle
A discharged patient takes from hospital,

Where dusk is empty, like a broken tale,
Abandoned by a star, without conclusion,
So that expressionless, unfathomable,
A thousand clamouring eyes are in confusion.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Scheme XXAA XBAB
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 371
Words 63
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. more…

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