<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The thick golden stream of honey took so long</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thick golden stream of honey took so long<br>To pour, our host had time to say:<br>'Here in the dismal Taurides, where fate has brought us,<br>We don't get bored at all' -- and she looked over her shoulder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The services of Bacchus everywhere, as if on earth<br>Were only guards and dogs. You go along, you notice no one --<br>Like heavy barrels, the peaceful days roll by:<br>Far off. Voices in a hut: you cannot understand, nor reply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After tea, we went out in the huge brown garden,<br>The dark blinds were lowered like eyelashes.<br>Past white columns, we went to look at the grapes,<br>Where the drowsy mountains are glazed with airy glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said: the vines live like an ancient battle<br>Where curly-headed horsemen fight in twisted order.<br>The science of Hellas in the stony Tauride -- and here<br>There are the noble, rusty rows of golden acres.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>5</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silence stands in the room white as a spinning wheel,<br>From the cellar, smells of paint, vinegar, fresh wine.<br>Remember, in the Greek house: the woman loved by everyone --<br>Not Helen -- another -- how long she embroidered?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>6</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Golden fleece, where are you, golden fleece?<br>The sea's heavy waves roared the whole way.<br>Abandoning the ship, its canvas worn out on the seas,<br>Odysseus returned, full of space and time.</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=473369" data-title="The thick golden stream of honey took so long de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="1 The thick golden stream of honey took so long To pour, our host had time to say: 'Here in the dismal Taurides, where fate has brought us, We don't get bored at all' -- and she looked over her shoulder. 2 The services of Bacchus everywhere, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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