Osip Mandelshtam
- Aya Sophia, by Rupert Moreton
Aya Sophia — wondrous building planted /
For God to judge the peoples and the kings! /
Your dome, said one who saw it once, enchanted, /
Suspend...
- Hagia Sofia, by Ilya Shambat
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Hagia Sofia — here to stop and stare /
The Lord has ordered people and the tsars! /
Your dome, as an eyewitness once described it, /
As if b...
- Hagia Sophia, by Alistair Noon
Hagia Sophia, where the Lord ordained /
that the emperors and nations should halt, /
that dome of yours hangs on a chain /
from the heavens, obs...
- Hagia Sophia, by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
Hagia Sophia, the Lord commanded /
That nations and kings should stop here! /
For your cupola, in the words of eye-witness, /
As on a chain, is ...