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
  1. 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 ...