"Day and Night" ~ Tiutchev

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Dinesh ^club

. . . . The ecstasy of fulfillment, overwhelming in Wordsworth and Novalis, could not be found in Tiutchev. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Tyutchev Only very occasionally, notably in his sublime depiction of earth autumn “There Is in Early Autumn”), the Russian poet approached something akin to perfect harmony and bliss.

{There is a spell in autumn early,
One all too brief, of an enchantment rare:
The nights are radiant and pearly,
The days, pellucid, crystal-clear.

Where played the sickle and fell the corn, a mellow,
A warm and breathless stillness reigns supreme;
Spanning the brown and idle furrow,
A dainty thread of cobweb gleams.

The birds have flown, we hear no more their clamour,
But winter's angry winds not soon will start to blow -
Upon the empty fields there pours the azure glow
Of skies that have not lost the warmth of summer.

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev}

Translation of the lines in the image:

Upon the mysterious world of spirits
Over the nameless abyss, a shroud of golden cloth
Has been cast by the lofty will of the gods.
Day is this glistering cover --
Day, the enlivening force of earthly beings,
The healing power for the aching soul,
The friend of men and gods.

But day darkens -- night has fallen;
It has come -- and from the fatal world it casts away;
Having torn off, the beneficent cloth of the shroud . . .
And the abyss is laid bare to us
With its horrors and vapors,
And there are no barriers between it and us --
That is why night is terrifying to us. ~ Page 87

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Dinesh ^club

4 years ago.

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