<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473360" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Straw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you are trying to sleep, Solominka,<br>In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting,<br>Sleepless, for the high and weighty ceiling to come down<br>With quiet, heavy sorrow on your keen eyelids,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sonorous Solomka, or seasoned Solominka,<br>You've drunk down all death, grown tender and<br>Been broken, my dear Solomka, no more alive --<br>Not Salome, no, it is Solominka.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In hours of insomnia, objects are heavier<br>As if fewer of them -- such a stillness --<br>The cushions glitter in the mirror, whitening a bit,<br>And the bed is reflected in the round pool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, it is not Solomka in her solemn satin<br>In a huge room above the black Neva.<br>For twelve months they sing of the final hour,<br>And the pale blue ice waves in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Solemn December sends out its breath<br>As if the great Neva were in the room.<br>No, not Solominka, Ligeia, dying --<br>I have learned you, glorious words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have learned you, blessed words:<br>-- Lenore, Solominka, Ligeia, Seraphita --<br>In the enormous room, the great Neva,<br>And from the granite, the blue blood flows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Solemn December shines above the Neva.<br>For twelve months they sing of the final hour.<br>No, not Solominka in her satin<br>Savoring a slow, oppressive rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my blood lives December's Ligeia,<br>Whose blissful love sleeps in a sarcophagus,<br>And which, solominka, perhaps Salome,<br>Was killed by pity, and shall never return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Osip+Emilevich+Mandelstam">Osip Emilevich Mandelstam</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=473360" data-title="Straw de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="I When you are trying to sleep, Solominka, In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting, Sleepless, for the high and weighty ceiling to come down With quiet, heavy sorrow on your keen eyelids, Sonorous Solomka, or seasoned Solominka, You've drunk d..."></div> </div> </div>

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