First Love

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First Love is from his collection Poems by Alexander Puskin (1888), translated by Ivan Panin.
An illustration for the story First Love by the author Alexsander Pushkin
Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, 1813
An illustration for the story First Love by the author Alexsander Pushkin
Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, 1813
An illustration for the story First Love by the author Alexsander Pushkin
Not at once our youth is faded,
Not at once our joys forsake us,
And happiness we unexpected
Yet embrace shall more than once;
But ye, impressions never-dying
Of newly trepidating Love,
And thou, first flame of Intoxication,—
Not flying back are coming ye!

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