Boris Pasternak

Here you will find the Poem Sparrow Hills of poet Boris Pasternak

Sparrow Hills

Breasts beneath kisses, as though under a tap!
Summer?s stream won?t run for ever.
We can?t pump out the accordion?s roar
night after night, in a dusty fever.

I?ve heard of age. Terrible prophecies!
No wave will lift its hands to the stars.
They say ? who believes? No face in the leaves,
no gods in the air, in the ponds: no hearts.

Rouse your soul! Make the day, foaming.
It?s noon in the world. Where are your eyes?
See there, thoughts in the whiteness seething,
fir-cones, woodpeckers, cloud, heat, pines.

Here, the city?s trolley-lines end.
Beyond there?s no rails, it?s the trees.
Beyond ? it?s Sunday, breaking branches,
the glade running off, sliding on leaves.

Scattering noons: Whitsuntide: walking,
`The world?s always like this?, says the wood.
So the copse planned it, the clearing was told,
So it pours, from the clouds, towards us.