The wondrous moment of our meeting… poem – Alexander Pushkin

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

The wondrous moment of our meeting…

Still I remember you appear

Before me like a vision fleeting,

A beauty’s angel pure and clear.

In hopeless ennui surrounding

The worldly bustle, to my ear

For long your tender voice kept sounding,

For long in dreams came features dear.

Time passed. Unruly storms confounded

Old dreams, and I from year to year

Forgot how tender you had sounded,

Your heavenly features once so dear.

My backwoods days dragged slow and quiet —

Dull fence around, dark vault above —

Devoid of God and uninspired,

Devoid of tears, of fire, of love.

Sleep from my soul began retreating,

And here you once again appear

Before me like a vision fleeting,

A beauty’s angel pure and clear.

In ecstasy my heart is beating,

Old joys for it anew revive;

Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting

The fire, and tears, and love alive.

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• Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The White Pall Of Peace poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Spring-Time, O The Spring–Time poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Season poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Owl And The Lark poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• “The lark confinèd in his cage” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin

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