Osip Mandelstam Poems (13 Poems)
Sisters (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
Sisters – Heaviness and Tenderness- you look the same. Wasps and bees both suck the heavy rose. Man dies, and the hot sand cools again. Carried off on a black stretcher, yesterday’s sun goes. Oh, honeycombs’ heaviness, nets’ tenderness, it’s … Continue reading
The Age (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
My age, my beast, is there anyone Who can peer into your eyes And with his own blood fuse Two centuries’ worth of vertebrae? The creating blood gushes From the throat of earthly things, And the parasite just trembles On … Continue reading
A flame is in my blood (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
A flame is in my blood burning dry life, to the bone. I do not sing of stone, now, I sing of wood. It is light and coarse: made of a single spar, the oak’s deep heart, and the fisherman’s … Continue reading
This (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
This is what I most want unpursued, alone to reach beyond the light that I am furthest from. And for you to shine there- no other happiness- and learn, from starlight, what its fire might suggest. A star burns as … Continue reading
What shall I do with this body they gave me (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
What shall I do with this body they gave me, so much my own, so intimate with me? For being alive, for the joy of calm breath, tell me, who should I bless? I am the flower, and the gardener … Continue reading
This night is irredeemable (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
This night is irredeemable. Where you are, it is still bright. At the gates of Jerusalem, a black sun is alight. The yellow sun is hurting, sleep, baby, sleep. The Jews in the Temple’s burning buried my mother deep. Without … Continue reading
I don’t remember the word I wished to say (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
I don’t remember the word I wished to say. The blind swallow returns to the hall of shadow, on shorn wings, with the translucent ones to play. The song of night is sung without memory, though. No birds. No blossoms … Continue reading
Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight – the great, darkening year. Into the seething waters of the night heavy forests of nets disappear. O Sun, judge, people, your light is rising over sombre years Let us glorify the deadly weight … Continue reading
Silentium (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
She has not yet been born: she is music and word, and therefore the untorn, fabric of what is stirred. Silent the ocean breathes. Madly day’s glitter roams. Spray of pale lilac foams, in a bowl of grey-blue leaves. May … Continue reading
Petropolis (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
From a fearful height, a wandering light, but does a star glitter like this, crying? Transparent star, wandering light your brother, Petropolis, is dying. From a fearful height, earthly dreams are alight, and a green star is crying. Oh star, … Continue reading
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