Osip Mandelstam – Un povero raggio / Light sheds its meagre ray
Victor Vasnetsov, The Birds of Joy and Sorrow, 1896 Light sheds its meagre ray, coldly in the damp forest. I carry Sorrow, a grey bird, sluggish, in my chest. What to do with the wounded bird? Solid, restrained, the silence: the bells, out of the misted bell-tower, have been stolen. And the heights stand, like …
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