Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (; – 8 November 1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933), wrote more than 200 poems. The great majority of them were included into his 1900s collections: Poems (1887–1891), Under the Open Skies (1898), Falling Leaves (1901), Flowers of the Field (1901), Poems (1903), Poems (1903–1906) and Poems of 1907 (1908). Some appeared in short stories' collections (Poems and stories, 1900, Flowers of the Field, 1901, etc.).
Volumes 1 and 3 of 1915's The Works by I.A. Bunin were compilations of poems; some were included also into Volume 6. The Adolf Marks' edition represented the whole of Bunin's poetic legacy (as of 1915), starting with the Falling Leaves book's material. Since then Bunin's poems were appearing in his collections of short stories: Chalice of Life (1915), The Gentleman from San Francisco (1916) and Temple of the Sun (1917). Many of his poems (some revised) featured in three books published in emigration: Primal Love (1921), Chalice of Love (1922), Rose of Jerico (1924), Mitya's Love (1925). In 1929 the Selected Poems (1929) came out in Paris. There was little poetry, though, in The Complete Bunin in 1 volumes, published by Petropolis in 1934–1936.
1886–1899
1886
"Open wider, my chest..." (Шире, грудь, распахнись...). Dated March 28, 1886. First published in the Works by I.A. Bunin, 1st ed., 1915, Vol. 1. "The Poet" (Поэт). The Works by I.A. Bunin, 1st ed., Vol. 1. "Thoughtful crescent, deep in midnight..." (Месяц задумчивый, полночь глубокая...). Yuzhnoye Obozrenye (Southern Review) newspaper. Odessa. No.532, July 19, 1898, as "In July". "The Village Pauper" (Деревенский нищий). Bunin's first ever published poem. Rodina magazine, Saint Petersburg. No.20. May 17, 1887. "How sad, how quickly did it fade..." (Как печально, как скоро померкла...) Falling Leaves collection, 1901.
1887
"Flowers of the Field" (Полевые цветы). Flowers of the Field collection, 1901. "At the Pond" (На пруде). Under the Open Skies, 1901. "In the darkening fields, like in the boundless seas..." (В темнеющих полях, как в безграничном море...). Under the Open Skies, 1898. "Moon's crescent, under longish cloud..." (Серп луны под тучкой длинной...). Falling Leaves, 1901. "The Calm" (Затишье). Knizhki Nedeli (Books of the Week) magazine, No.9, Saint Petersburg. September 1898, untitled. "October Sunrise" (Октябрьский рассвет). Under the Open Skies, 1901. "Full moon is high..." (Высоко полный месяц стоит...) Detskoye Tchtenye (Reading for Children) magazine, No.11, 1897, Moscow, as "The Night" (Ночь). "I remember a long winter evening..." (Помню – долгий зимний вечер...). Knizhki Nedeli, January 1889, No.1. 1888 "Such warm and dark a dawn..." (Какая тёплая и тёмная заря...) Poems, 1887–1991, 1891. "The night gets pale. The veil of mists..." (Бледнеет ночь. Туманов пелена...) Poems, 1887–1991, 1891. "Asters are crumbling in gardens..." (Осыпаются астры в садах...). Knizhki nedeli, 1888, No.10, October. "As a child I loved this twilight in the church..." (Любил я в детстве сумрак в храме...) Knizhki nedeli, 1888, No.7, July. "Don't you frighten me with thunder..." (Не пугай меня грозою...) Knizhki nedeli, 1888, No.12, December. "A cloud has melted. Humid warmth..." (Туча растаяла. Влажным теплом...) Under the Open Skies, 1898. "The autumn wind rises up in the woods..." (Ветер осенний в лесах подымается...) Mir Bozhiy, Saint Petersburg, 1898, No.10, October. "I leave alone my house at midnight..." (В полночь выхожу один из дома...) Posledniye novosti, 1935, No.5334, October 31, along with 11 more poems, all noted as "previously unpublished". "The desert and sorrow of steppes..." (Пустыня, грусть в степных просторах...) Posledniye novosti, 1935, No.5334, October 31.