Showing posts with label by denying me the seas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label by denying me the seas. 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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