Osip Mandelshtam
- Leningrad, by Dmitry Berger
I am back in my city, dear to me like my tears /
Like small veins, swollen glands of my infancy years.
You have come here, now go ahead in one gulp...
- Leningrad, by Andrey Kneller
I‘ve returned to my city, it’s familiar in truth /
To the tears, to the veins, swollen glands of my youth.
You are here once again, — quickly gulp ...
- Leningrad, by Peter Russell
I have come back to my city, familiar to the point of tears, /
To the blood in my veins, to my childhood’s swollen tonsils. /
You have come back h...
- Leningrad, by Bernard Meares
I returned to my city, familiar as tears, /
As veins, as mumps from childhood years.
You’ve returned here, so swallow as quick as you can /
The f...
- Leningrad, by Rupert Moreton
I’ve returned to my city, with tears too well versed, /
And with veins and with childhood’s glands ready to burst.
You’ve returned here — with hast...
- Leningrad, by Alistair Noon
I’m back in the city I’d walk till I cried, /
that I knew to my veins and glands as a child.
Back now in Leningrad. Quicker and quicker, /
gulp d...
- Leningrad, by Rose Styron
Return to my city, dearer to me than tears, /
to its veins, the swollen glands of childhood nights, /
return, remembering — swallow, O quickly the...
- Petersburg, by Dina Belyayeva
I returned to my city familiar to tears, /
To my vessels and tonsils of childhood years,
You returned here again, then devour and cram /
The fish...
in spanish Ósip Mandelshtam (español)
in dutch Osip Mandelstam (nederlands)
- Leningrad, Vertaalgroep Leidse Slavisten
Terug in de stad mij tot tranen bekend, /
In het merg, in het bloed tot het laatste bekend. /
Je bent weer terug, dus je vreet je meteen /
Door ...
in finnish Osip Mandelstam (suomi)
- Leningrad, Marja-Leena Mikkola
Palasin kaupunkiini — kyynelrauhasillani /
tunnistan sen kuin lapsi — joka suonellani.
Palasit? Kiirehdi niin ehdit ryypätä /
kalaöljyn Leningrad...