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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MINUTE, by INNOKENTI FYODOROVICH ANNENSKY Poet's Biography First Line: When a patterned stuff will so flutter Last Line: And a white burning flame is so strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Annenski, Innokenti Fyodorovich | |||
WHEN a patterned stuff will so flutter, And a burning flame is so white, No need now to smile or to utter: Just remain as you were, in my sight. Just remain in your darkness and drooping, More pale than an autumn at dawn, Out there where the willow is stooping To shivering shadows of lawn. A minute -- the wind will come shaking The leaves into patterns around. A minute -- the heart then awaking Will know 'tis not you that it found. Just stay then, and smile not nor utter; Just stay as a vision so long As a patterned stuff will so flutter And a white burning flame is so strong. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO GALLANT FRANCE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE by KAREN SWENSON CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 1 by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE BEFORE VICKSBURG by GEORGE HENRY BOKER A PUBLISHER TO HIS CLIENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE HOMES OF THE DEAD by ELIZA COOK |
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