| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “You Sit on the Bed There” | | By Andrey Bely (Pseudonym of Boris Bugayev) (b. 1880) |
| | (Opening poem of the “Funeral Mass” cycle)
“YOU sit on the bed there | |
| In the sunset’s full crimson, | |
| Pillows crumpled, | |
| Looking distracted,—what | |
| Troubles you?” | 5 |
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| “Oh, swept by | |
| Transparent | |
| Gold cataracts, | |
| The fir-tree tops | |
| Loom athwart the sky’s blue.” | 10 |
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| “Orphaned, alone, I shall | |
| Languish, | |
| Through summery | |
| Twilights and Winter nights. | |
| There are new flights, but | 15 |
| Try them I dare not. | |
| Oh, do not die!” | |
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| “Oh, above the pines | |
| I float off into æther seas. | |
| Who, there, what, there, | 20 |
| Swathes the sky with whitenesses, | |
| As with vestments of silver?” | | | | |
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