Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Aleksandr Pushkin
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Aleksandr Pushkin, 1799-1837. Russian writer who wrote the novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
But a knight-errant needs a sword, And armor-plating never harmed him; So presently Ruslan recalled That combat of late had disarmed him. He strides about the battlefield; 'Mid bones with creepers interwoven, In rustling piles of cuisse and shield, Of sword and helmet bent and cloven, He seeks a suit of mail or chain.
He watched her, drowsy eyelids blinking, In torpor languorous and deep, And, head and shoulders alowly sinking, Against her feet, he fell asleep.
The princess labored until morn In throes of dreamlike indecision, As one who is in a nightmare vision Lies paralyzed ---until at dawn She rose; her waking mind unsealing Excitement mixed with nameless fear; Her soul seeks flaming heights of feeling Gropes for a someone, senses reeling.
Beyond the steppelands' torrid reaches, Beyond a chain of savage mountains, The home of winds, of thundering gales, A realm which even brazen witches Are loath to tread when daylight fails, Deep in a dale two magic fountains Have broken from the valley bed: The one with living water gushes, And down the boulders gaily rushing, The others charged with waters dead.
With half-articulated passion... But now the long-drawn pain was soothed, The momentary furor faded, The heaving breath was gently smoothed, The superhuman vision shaded And broke; prince and magician saw Life shiver briefly, and withdraw... Eternal slumber now it slept.
Most wonderous genius of verse, Oh bard of reveries and revels, Oh love, of mystries and devils, Oh faithful mate of hearth and hearse, And to my Muse no stuffy matron Preserver, intimate, and patron! Forgive me, Orpheus of the north, If in my rambling back and forth I briefly touch your lofty levels And tilt your upright lyre awry To trap it in a charming lie.
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