Monday, December 13, 2021

Osip Mandelstam

 






from Stone: 24

TRANSLATED BY CLARENCE BROWN AND W. S. MERWIN
Leaves scarcely breathing
in the black breeze;
the flickering swallow
draws circles in the dusk.
 
In my loving
dying heart
a twilight is coming,
a last ray, gently reproaching.
 
And over the evening forest
the bronze moon climbs to its place.
Why has the music stopped?
Why is there such silence?
 


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