Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin

A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation

Day’s rain is done. The rainy mist of night

Spreads on the sky, leaden apparel wearing,

And through the pine-trees, like a ghost appearing,

The moon comes up with hidden light.

All in my soul drags me to dark surrender.

There, far away, rises the moon in splendour.

There all the air is drunk with evening heat,

There move the waters in a sumptuous heat,

And overhead the azure skies…

It is the hour. From high hills she has gone

To sea-shores flooding in the waves’ loud cries;

There, where the holy cliffs arise,

Now she sits melancholy and alone…

Alone… Before her none is weeping, fretting,

None, on his knees, is kissing her, forgetting;

Alone… To no one’s lips is she betraying

Her shoulders, her wet lips, her snow-white bosom.

No one is worthy of her heavenly love.

‘Tis true?… Alone… You weep… I do not move.

Yet if…

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