<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Venetian Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The meaning of somber and barren<br>Venetian life is clear to me:<br>Now she looks into a decrepit blue glass<br>With a cool smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Refined air. Blue veins of skin.<br>White snow. Green brocade.<br>They are all placed on cypress stretchers,<br>Taken warm and drowsy from a cape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the candles burn, burn in baskets,<br>As if a pigeon had flown into the shrine.<br>At the theater and the solemn council,<br>A man is dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because there is no salvation from love and fear,<br>Saturn's ring is heavier than platinum,<br>The block draped with black velvet,<br>And a beautiful face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your headdress is heavy, Venezia,<br>In the cypress mirror frame.<br>Your air is faceted. In the bedroom,<br>The blue mountains of decrepit glass dissolve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only in her hands are the rose and the hourglass --<br>Green Adriatic, forgive me.<br>Why are you silent, Venetienne,<br>How can I escape this solemn death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black Hesper glimmers in the mirror.<br>Everything passes, the truth is dark.<br>A man is born, a pearl dies.<br>And Susannah has to wait for the elders.</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=473378" data-title="Venetian Life de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="1 The meaning of somber and barren Venetian life is clear to me: Now she looks into a decrepit blue glass With a cool smile. 2 Refined air. Blue veins of skin. White snow. Green brocade. They are all placed on cypress stretchers, Taken warm and..."></div> </div> </div>

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