Boris Pasternak

Here you will find the Poem Nostalgia of poet Boris Pasternak

Nostalgia

To give this book a dedication 
The desert sickened, 
And lions roared, and dawns of tigers 
Took hold of Kipling. 

A dried-up well of dreadful longing 
Was gaping, yawning. 
They swayed and shivered, rubbing shoulders, 
Sleek-skinned and tawny. 

Since then continuing forever 
Their sway in scansion, 
They stroll in mist through dewy meadows 
Dreamt up by Ganges. 

Creeping at dawn in pits and hollows 
Cold sunrays fumble.
Funereal, incense-laden dampness 
Pervades the jungle.