Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Osip Mandelstam: Centuries encircle me with fire
On Translating Mandelstam
(1891-1938)
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
( 1908-1915)
From Stone (poems of 1908-1915)
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I am given a body-what should I . . .
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I hate the light . . .
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The fall is a constant companion of fear . . .
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Hagia Sophia
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. . . Not a single blade . . .
The Wand
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The fire destroys . . .
Tristia ( 1916-1922)
From Tristia (poems of 1916-1922)
A Decembrist
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When a feverish forum of Moscow . . .
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Hail, brothers, let us praise our freedom's twilight . . .
Tristia
Tristia
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On steep stony ridges of Pieria . . .
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Sisters, heaviness and tenderness, your traits are akin . . .
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Go back to the incestuous womb . . .
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The meaning of fruitless and gloomy . . .
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Because I could not hold your hands in mine . . .
(1928 ., 1921-1925 .)
From Poems (1928, poems of 1921-1925)
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With the pink foam of fatigue around soft lips . . .
The Age
The Horseshoe Finder
The Slate Ode
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Clearer than pigeon's talk to me is stone's tongue . . .
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And the Sky is Pregnant with the Future . . .
1 1924
January 1, 1924
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No, I've never been anyone's contemporary . . .
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I'll rush along a gypsy camp of a dark street . . .
c 1930-1934 .
From New Poems of 1930-1934
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Armenia
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On the police laid paper the night. . .
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Don't tell it anyone-forget . . .
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A prickly speech of the Ararat Valley . . .
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How dear to me are those people . . .
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A wild cat-the Armenian speech . . .
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I will tell you this, my lady . . .
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For the thunderous courage of ages to come . . .
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No, I won't be able to hide from a great mess . . .
Untruth
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Midnight in Moscow. A Buddhist summer is lavish . . .
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Excerpts from Destroyed Poems
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I am far from being as old as patriarch . . .
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Today we can take decals . . .
Lamarck
Impressionism
Batiushkov
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Give Tiutchev a dragonfly . . .
Ariosto
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Do not tempt foreign tongues-attempt forgetting them, alas . . .
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An apartment is quiet as paper . . .
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Let's start preparing for the scaffold . . .
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We live without feeling our country's pulse . . .
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Octaves
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To the Memory of Andrei Bely
10 1934
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The Morning of January 10, 1934
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10 1934 [ 2]
January 10, 1934 [version 2]
( 1935-1937)
From the Voronezh Notebooks (poems of 1935-1937)
From the First Notebook
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Let go, Voronezh, raven-town . . .
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I have to live though I died twice . . .
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Having deprived me of seas, flight, and space . . .
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The day was five-headed: five unbreakable days . . .
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We are still sentenced to life . . .
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Solid gold bars of the Roman nights . . .
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They run like a gypsy throng . . .
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I'll fulfill a dim rite . . .
From the Second Notebook
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Not I, not you-but they . . .
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Smile, angry lamb from Rafael's canvas, don't rage . . .
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World's golden yeast, our dear . . .
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You haven't died yet. You are not alone . . .
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What should we do with murdered plains . . .
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Armed with the vision of narrow wasps . . .
From the Third Notebook
Verses on the Unknown Soldier
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Through the ether of ten-digit zeroes . . .
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Should the skull develop its brow . . .
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Is the packaging of charm stored . . .
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I beg like compassion and grace . . .
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I will say it in draft and in whisper . . .
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It might be the point of insanity . . .
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A living man's unique: do not compare . . .
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To help a friend of rain and wind . . .
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A blue island, green Crete is extolled . . .
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A guilty debtor of a long-time thirst . . .
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Oh, how I madly crave . . .
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My nereids, oh, my nereids! . . .
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Greek flute's theta and iota . . .
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I'm under fire of a bird cherry tree and a pear tree . . .
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[Poems for N . Shtempel]
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