This web site doesn't display advertising. Please consider making a donation.
Help me, The Lord, to live through the night
Free texts and images.
| Help me, The Lord, to live through the night… written by Osip Mandelstam |
| From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Помоги, Господь, эту ночь прожить. |
* * *
Help me, The Lord, to live through the night.
I am afraid for life, for your slave…
Living in Saint Petersburg is like sleeping in a coffin.
January 1931
© Dmitri Smirnov, Translation. Can be reproduced if non commercial.
