Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky

Here you will find the Poem The Candles Are Brought In of poet Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky

The Candles Are Brought In

Don?t you have the strange vision sometimes
(When a dark penetrates in a house) 
Of another existence for us,
Where we live in the other life?s phases?

There, a shade?s softly pressed to a shade,
And such wonderful minute there hovers,
Where as if, through the beams by eyes sent,
We unite our bodies and souls.

We afraid that a word or a move
Would get off this magnificent instant, 
As if one puts his ear above
And recalls us to listen at distance.

But as soon as a candle is kindled,
Second world would this minute retire? 
And from eyes through the light?s rays inclined,
Shades would run into pale-blue of fire.