Love
Song from the Old Russian
Translated by John Bowring · From Specimens of the Russian Poets, 1821
Love
Hark! those tones of music stealing
Through yon wood at even:
Sweetest songs that breathe a feeling
Pure and bright as heaven.
Nightingales in chorus near thee,
All their notes are blending;
Then they stop their songs to hear thee,
Silent--unpretending.
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Bogdanovich, Ippolit. “Song from the Old Russian.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bogdanovich/3/.
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Bogdanovich, Ippolit. “Song from the Old Russian.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bogdanovich/3/.
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