The Vision poem – Alexander Pushkin

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

I remember a marvellous instant,

Unto me bending down from above,

Thy radiant vision appearing

As an angel of beauty and love.

‘Mid the torments of desperate sadness,

In the torture of bondage and sighs,

To me rang thy voice so beloved–

And I dreamed thy miraculous eyes.

But the years rolled along–and life’s tempests

My illusions, my youth overcame,

I forgot that sweet voice full of music–

And thy glance like a heavenly flame.

In the covert and grief of my exile,

The days stretched unchanged in their flight,

Bereft inspiration or power,

Bereft both of love and of light.

To my soul now approaches awakening,

To me thou art come from above,

As a radiant and wonderful vision–

As an angel of beauty and love.

As before my heart throbs with emotion,

Life looks to me worthy and bright,

And I feel inspiration and power–

And again love and tears and the light!

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• Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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• Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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• There Pass the Careless People poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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• The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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• The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• The True Lover poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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• The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
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