Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Love Poems

• 1. I Can-t Sleep
  I canâ??t sleep. Homer, and the taut white sails.
  I could the list of ships read only to a half:
  The long-long breed, the train of flying cranes
  Had lifted once the ancient Greece above.
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• 2. Venetian Life
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  The meaning of somber and barren
  Venetian life is clear to me:
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• 3. I Want To Serve You
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  I want to serve you
  On an equal footing with others;
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• 4. The Greeks Planned For War
  The Greeks planned for war
  On the delightful island of Salamis.
  From the harbor of Athens, you could see it
  Seized by the enemy's hand.
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• 5. I Often Shiver With Cold
  I often shiver with cold --
  I want to be mute as a thing!
  There is, in the skies, dancing gold
  Sending me commands to sing!
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• 6. To Read Only Children's Books
  To read only children's books,
  To have only childish thoughts,
  To throw everything grown-up away,
  To rise from deep sadness.
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• 7. Straw
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  When you are trying to sleep, Solominka,
  In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting,
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• 8. Go Back To The Tainted Lap, Leah
  Go back to the tainted lap, Leah,
  Whence you came,
  Because to the sun of Ilion
  You preferred yellow twilight.
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• 9. I Don-t Remember The Word I Wished To Say
  I don-t remember the word I wished to say.
  The blind swallow returns to the hall of shadow,
  on shorn wings, with the translucent ones to play.
  The song of night is sung without memory, though.
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