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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...HERITAGE by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE POET by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET: 9. TO THE RIVER LODON by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN by THOMAS WYATT IN APRIL by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY |
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