The Menagerie (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
The rejected word "peace"At the beginning of an outraged era;A church lamp in a grottoAnd the air of mountain landsAn ...
The rejected word "peace"At the beginning of an outraged era;A church lamp in a grottoAnd the air of mountain landsAn ...
IWhen you are trying to sleep, Solominka,In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting,Sleepless, for the high and weighty ceiling to ...
11: The thick golden stream of honey took so longTo pour, our host had time to say:"Here in the dismal ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
In Petersburg we'll meet again,As though we'd buried the sun there,And for the first time utterThe blessed, senseless word.In the ...
On the stony spurs of PieriusThe Muses conducted the first round danceSo like bees, blind lyrists might give us Ionic ...
-- How hard for me, the splendor of this crown and robe,amidst my shame -- -- In stony Troezen will be ...
1A phantom scene barely glimmers,The soft choirs of shades,Melpomene has lashed the windows of her room with satin.Wagons stand in ...
1A phantom scene barely glimmers,The soft choirs of shades,Melpomene has lashed the windows of her room with satin.Wagons stand in the ...
1The meaning of somber and barrenVenetian life is clear to me:Now she looks into a decrepit blue glassWith a cool ...
This night is irredeemable.Where you are, it is still bright.At the gates of Jerusalem,a black sun is alight.The yellow sun ...
This night is irredeemable.Where you are, it is still bright.At the gates of Jerusalem,a black sun is alight.The yellow sun ...
1Still far the asphodels,grey-transparent Spring.Meanwhile, the sand rustles,the wave foams.But here, like Persephone,my soul joins the gentle circle,and in the ...
INot believing in the Resurrection,we strolled in the cemetery.-- You know, the earth everywherereminds me of those hills. . . ...
-- How hard for me, the splendor of this crown and robe,amidst my shame ---- In stony Troezen will be ...
Beneath a veil of milky whiteStands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote,The crozier irritates the grey silences,The heart understands the airy ...
Beneath a veil of milky whiteStands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote,The crozier irritates the grey silences,The heart understands the airy rite.The ...
I am sorry it is winter now,And you can't hear mosquitoes in the house,But you reminded yourselfOf the frivolous straw.The ...
"To this the pagan senate bears witness:-- THESE DEEDS SHALL NEVER DIE! -- "He lit his pipe and wrapped his ...
I am sorry it is winter now,And you can't hear mosquitoes in the house,But you reminded yourselfOf the frivolous straw.The ...
1Let us glorify, brothers, the twilight of freedom --The great twilight year.A weighty forest of nets is loweredInto the bubbling ...
1I want to serve youOn an equal footing with others;From jealousy, to tell your fortuneWith dry lips. The word does ...
1I want to serve youOn an equal footing with others;From jealousy, to tell your fortuneWith dry lips. The word does ...
On a sleigh, padded with straw,Barely covered by the fateful mat,From the Vorobevy hills to the familiar chapelWe rode through ...
1In a crystal whirlpool, such steepness!Behind us the sienna mountains stand out,Jagged cathedrals of raving mad cliffsAre suspended in the ...
I had not tried the wine that ancients made,And had not heard of Ossian's old tune;So why, on earth, I ...
I had not tried the wine that ancients made,And had not heard of Ossian's old tune;So why, on earth, I ...
As Psyche-Life goes down to the shadesIn a translucent forest in Persephone's tracks,A blind swallow falls at her feetWith Stygian ...
As Psyche-Life goes down to the shadesIn a translucent forest in Persephone's tracks,A blind swallow falls at her feetWith Stygian ...
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