Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.
FuneralVyacheslav Ivanov (b. 1866)
O
Is love’s that dies unanswered.
The soul has two to bury:
The soul of the beloved
And its own other selfhood.
And a third enters, living,
The funeral flame that wraps them;
His wings a yoke has weighted:
Him the wise lips of lovers
Call in their kisses, Eros,
And gods: the Resurrector.