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Innokenty Annensky lived most of his life as a schoolmaster and classical scholar, publishing his first collection of verse at nearly fifty under the pseudonym "Nik. T.-o" — a contraction of Nikto, Russian for "Nobody." The modesty was genuine, but the poems were not modest at all.

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The Spring Romance

The river else doesn’t wholly reign,
But pale-blue ice is drowned now;
And clouds are not blue again,
But sun had drunk the snow out.
Through a half-opened door,
You fret a heart with rustle; though…
You are not else in love; but lor!
You can’t not fall in love tomorrow.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, February, 2001

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