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← [[ ]] More sluggish the snowy hive… ~ Медлительнее снежный улей…
written by Osip Mandelstam 		[[ ]] →
PD (1)
[1]. From Stone. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by A. S. Kline. The source: www.tonykline.co.uk.



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More sluggish the snowy hive,
clearer the window’s crystal,
on a chair, a turquoise veil,
thrown there, carelessly, lies.

A tissue, self-intoxicated,
as if it never felt winter’s
touch, experiencing summer’s,
by its own delicacy, caressed:

and, if in icy diamonds
frost is eternally streaming,
here — it’s dragonflies flickering,
blue-eyed, living, and gone.


1910

Notes

  1. ↑ First printed in "Apollon", 1910.

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