24 Poems of Mandelshtam

By Mandelstam, Osip

Description
Classic Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: Only To Read Childrens? Books?. Only to read childrens? books, only to love childish things, throwing away adult things, rising from saddest looks. I am wearied to death with life. There?s nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there?s no other world to descant. A plain swing of wood; the dark, of the high fir-tree, in the far-off garden, swinging; remembered by feverish blood.

Table of Contents
contents Only to read childrens books................................................................5 On the pale-blue enamel ........................................................................6 What shall I do with this body they gave me, ........................................7 A speechless sadness .............................................................................8 There is no need for words’....................................................................9 Silentium................................................................................................10 The Shell ................................................................................................11 Orioles are in the woods, and in tonic ver ........................................12 Nature –is Rome, and mirrored there..................................................13 Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas............................................................14 Herds of horses whinny and graze .......................................................16 In transparent Petropolis we will leave only bone................................18 From a Fearful height, a wandering light............................................19 Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight ........................................21 The Age..................................................................................................23 ‘This night is irredeemable....................................................................25 Tristia .....................................................................................................27 Sisters Heaviness and Tenderness you look the same....................30 I don’t remember the word I wished to say..........................................31 For jos sake, from my hands,............................................................34 The ranks of human heads dwindle: they’re far away..........................36 Your thin shoulders whips will redden ................................................37 This is what I most want.....................................................................38 A flame is in my blood.........................................................................40