| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Autumn Evening | | By Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
| | | THE LIGHT of autumn evenings seems a screen, | |
| Some mystery with tender glamor muffling…. | |
| The trees in motley, cloaked in eerie sheen, | |
| The scarlet leaves that languid airs are ruffling, | |
| The still and misty azure, vaguely far, | 5 |
| Above the earth that waits her orphan sorrow, | |
| And bitter winds in gusty vagrance are | |
| Forerunners of a bleak, storm-driven morrow. | |
| The woods are waning; withered is the sun; | |
| Earth shows the smile of fading, meekly tender | 10 |
| As the high shyness of a suffering one, | |
| In noble reticence of sad surrender. | | | | |
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