Showing posts with label Osip Mandelstam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osip Mandelstam. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2015

By denying me the seas-by Osip Mandelstam


By denying me the seas,
the right to run and fly

By holding my foot firm
on this constraining earth

What have you achieved?
A splendid calculation.

But you could not seize 
my muttering lips thereby.

by Osip Mandelstam
(1891-1938)






Image By English: Kida Kinjiro 日本語: 木田金次郎 (「木田金次郎画集」木田金次郎美術館、1999年) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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