Osip Mandelshtam

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...