More sluggish the snowy hive (Mandelstam/Kline)

«More sluggish the snowy hive…» автор Osip Mandelstam (1891—1938), transl. A. S. Kline (b. 1947)

Источник: www.poetryintranslation.com • In Russian: «Медлительнее снежный улей…».First printed in "Apollon", 1910. From Stone (No. 6). See also Poems.

* * * More sluggish the snowy hive, clearer the window’s crystal, on a chair, a turquoise veil, thrown there, carelessly, lies. A tissue, self-intoxicated, as if it never felt winter’s touch, experiencing summer’s, by its own delicacy, caressed: and, if in icy diamonds frost is eternally streaming, here — it’s dragonflies flickering, blue-eyed, living, and gone. 1910

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© A. S. Kline, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.

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