Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems

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Let us go where there are varied crafts
And trades -- shashlik and chebureki,
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Let us glorify, brothers, the twilight of freedom --
The great twilight year.
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'I've lost a delicate cameo,
Somewhere on the Neva's shore.
I pity the charming Roman girl,'
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I could not among the misty clouds
Your unstable and painful image catch,
'Oh, my God', I promptly said aloud,
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Go back to the tainted lap, Leah,
Whence you came,
Because to the sun of Ilion
You preferred yellow twilight.
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I am cold. Transparent Spring dresses
Petropolis in verdant down.
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If I am to know how to restrain your hands,
If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,
I must wait for daybreak in the dense acropolis.
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In a crystal whirlpool, such steepness!
Behind us the sienna mountains stand out,
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-- How hard for me, the splendor of this crown and robe,
amidst my shame --

-- In stony Troezen will be an infamous calamity,
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Beneath a veil of milky white
Stands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote,
The crozier irritates the grey silences,
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