Identify a poem

[Inna Caron]

The poem is by Viacheslav Ivanov, "Obnishchalo list'io zlatoe..."
(1911).
I don't know who the translator is.


Inna Caron
Ph.D Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Graduate Senator (College of Humanities)
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-6733
caron.4 at osu.edu


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Subject: [SEELANGS] Identify a poem

Dear SEELANGers:

A colleague in classics at my university believes that this poem is a
translation from the Russian, but she can¹t find the source or th ename
of
the translator.  Any help would be much appreciated:

The Catch

Now the golden leafage is beggared.
Shining through the porches of autumn,
Shows the cool, blue stillness of heaven.
Lo, the thin-trunked grove is transcended:
Carved in stone, a columned cathedral.
Smoke-scrolls wind about the frail friezes;
Flung above the door is a curtain -
Open work; like nets of God¹s fishers
That the catch has slipped through and broken,
Like shy tatters, sacred and lovely,
At the entrance of a white temple,
Oh, thou golden, mendicant music!

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin
 
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