Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Light Poems

• 1. The Gates Of Paradise
  The eternal entrance into Eden
  Is not locked with seven precious seals;
  It has no charms nor light of heaven,
  And the people don't know that it is.
  ...
• 2. Forest
  In that magic forest, towering trees
  Unexpectedly come forward from the haze.
  
  Out of the earth, roots spring from other roots,
  ...
• 3. The Right Way
  Birth of the word is by agony molded,
  Through earthly life it is quietly going,
  It is a stranger, which drinks from the golden
  Pitcher the drops of the savagesâ?? mourning.
  ...
• 4. The Prophets
  There are the modern prophets here,
  Though altars totally are felt,
  Their eyes are very deep and clear â??
  In them, the flame of future set.
  ...
• 5. Only Serpents
  Only serpents let their skin be fallen
  And a soul - all grown up and old.
  We, alas, change an eternal soul,
  Leaving body in eternal hold.
  ...
• 6. The Lost Tram
  I walked an unfamiliar street
  And suddenly heard a raven's cry,
  And the sound of a lute, and distant thunder,-
  In front of me a tram was flying.
  ...
• 7. She
  I know her, her bitter silence,
  Her tiredness of her words and cries,
  Lives in the secret changing brightness
  Of widened pupils of her eyes.
  ...

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