| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Twilight | By Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)
(Trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky and Cecil Cowdrey) |
| | | SOFT the dove-hued shadows mingle, | |
| Color fades, sound droops to sleep. | |
| Life and motion melt to darkness | |
| Swaying murmurs far and deep. | |
| But the night moth’s languid flitting | 5 |
| Stirs the air invisibly: | |
| Oh, the hour of wordless longing; | |
| I in all, and all in me. | |
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| Twilight—tranquil, brooding twilight, | |
| Course through me, serene and smooth; | 10 |
| Quiet, languid, fragrant twilight, | |
| Flood all depths, all sorrows soothe, | |
| Every sense in dark and cooling | |
| Self-forgetfulness immerse,— | |
| Grant that I may taste extinction | 15 |
| In the dreaming universe. | | | | |
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