Tristia (Mandelstam)

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Tristia / Tristia автор Osip Mandelstam

The Poems 1921-1925 →

In Russian: Tristia. See also Poems.

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The cover of the first edition of "Tristia" (Petropolis, St Petersburg-Berlin, 1922), designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

Contents:

Tristia

• «Золотистого меда струя из бутылки текла…», 1917
  • The stream of golden honey poured, so viscous (A. S. Kline) 
  • The stream of gold honey that flowed from the bottle was so (Transl. by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky)
• Твое чудесное произношенье 1918
  • Your fabulous enunciation (Transl. by Ilya Shambat)
• Что поют часы-кузнечик 1918
  • What grasshopper-clocks are singing 1918, published in 1922 (Transl. by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky)
• «Сестры тяжесть и нежность…», 1920
  • Sisters heaviness and tenderness – your signs are the same 1920 (Transl. by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky)
• «Я в хоровод теней, топтавших нежный луг…», 1920
  • «Into the circling choral dance of shadows that trampled the soft meadow…» (Transl. by R. Bartlett with G. McBurney) 
• Ласточка (Я слово позабыл, что я хотел сказать…) 1920
  • It is as if I have forgotten what I wanted to say 1920 (Transl. by David Campbell, Rosemary Dobson, & Natalie Staples,

Canberra, 1975)