I'Ve Got a Body and What Can I Do By Osip Mandelstam
...I’ve got a body and what can I do?
It is so one, so mine, it is so true.
Who should I thank, tell me, and who did give
Me quite joy to breathe, quite joy to live?
I am the gardener, I’m the flowe...
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Categories:
mandelstam, emotions, feelings, life, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Gold Leaf Is Burning Very Bright By Osip Mandelstam
...Gold leaf is burning very bright
on Christmas trees and bush is hiding
toy wolves, they're looking through the night
with eerily eyes, their look is biting.
Oh, my prophetic tiresome grief,
oh...
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Categories:
mandelstam, emotions, feelings, metaphor, poets,
Form: Lyric
Softer Than Tenderness By Osip Mandelstam
...Softer than tenderness
your pretty face,
More white than white, of course,
your little hand,
It's far from world your walls
and native land,
It's unavoidable
your sweety bliss.
From sweety ...
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Categories:
mandelstam, assonance, emotions, feelings, poets,
Form: Lyric