<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Osip Mandelstam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the town is frozen solid in a vice,<br>Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.<br>Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice,<br>the painted sleighs and I, together, pass.<br>And over St Peter’s there are poplars, crows<br>there’s a pale green dome there that glows,<br>dim in the sun-shrouded dust.<br>The field of heroes lingers in my thought,<br>Kulikovo’s barbarian battleground.<br>The frozen poplars, like glasses for a toast,<br>clash now, more noisily, overhead.<br>As though it was our wedding, and the crowd<br>were drinking to our health and happiness.<br>But Fear and the Muse take turns to guard<br>the room where the exiled poet is banished,<br>and the night, marching at full pace,<br>of the coming dawn, has no knowledge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anna+Akhmatova">Anna Akhmatova</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345039" data-title="For Osip Mandelstam de Anna Akhmatova" data-description="And the town is frozen solid in a vice, Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass. Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice, the painted sleighs and I, together, pass. And over St Peter’s there are poplars, crows there’s a pale green dome there that ..."></div> </div> </div>

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