Osip Mandelshtam

• May you keep and remember forever my speech for its taste of misfortune and smoke..., by Michael Efroimsky
  May you keep and remember forever my speech for its taste of misfortune and smoke, / For its pitch and its tar, for my long humble patience and labo...
• Preserve my words forever for their aftertaste of misfortune and smoke..., by Robert Lowell
  Preserve my words forever for their aftertaste of misfortune and smoke, / for their tar of collective patience and conscientious work — / water in...
• To A. A. A., by Bernard Meares
  (Akhmatova) Preserve my speech forever for its taste of sadness and smoke, / For its resin of mutual forbearance, for its tar of conscience and wor...