National Poetry Month: "A Magic Moment I Remember" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

"A Magic Moment I Remember" by Alexander Segeyevich Pushkin, read by Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, Lecturer in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies.

"A Magic Moment I Remember"

A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision,
the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

I pray to mute despair
and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.

In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.

Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there
A fleeting vision,
the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

My heart is feeling celebration,
I did remember it again-
The aim to strive, the inspiration.
And love, and life and pain.

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