Sun, Sun
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin 1872 – 1963
Sun, sun,
divine Ra-Helios,
you delight
the hearts of kings and heroes,
sacred horses neigh to you,
in Heliopolis they sing hymns to you;
when you shine,
lizards crawl out onto rocks
and boys go laughing
to swim in the Nile.
Sun, sun,
I am a pale scribbler,
a library recluse,
but I love you, sun, no less
than a tanned sailor
smelling of fish and salt water,
and no less
than his accustomed heart
rejoices
at your royal rising
from the ocean,
my heart trembles,
when your dusty, but flaming ray
slips
through the narrow window by the ceiling
onto my filled page
and my thin, yellowish hand,
writing out in vermilion
the first letter of a hymn to you,
O Ra-Helios sun!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AbcdeefghiAjkljjlmbhabnohpqaea |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
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