Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky

Here you will find the Poem I Thought That the Heart... of poet Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky

I Thought That the Heart...

I thought that the heart made of stone,
That it?s fully empty and dead:
Though fire in it had been thrown,
It?s not damaged or just upset.

And that?s right: it was not tormented,
If ? painful, then only a bit,
But, yet, it is better to end it,
Put out, while you can do it?

The heart is in darkness entire,
I?ve known: the victory?s mine ? 
At last, we extinguished the fire?
And, yet, in a smoke I die.