Osip Mandelshtam

• Our senses grew numb in this country of fear..., by Boris Meshcheryakov
  Our senses grew numb in this country of fear; / At ten paces they can’t our talk overhear. / But if we start a chat on occasion, / Each would sp...
• Stalin, by Robert Lowell
  We live. We are not sure our land is under us. / Ten feet away, no one hears us. But wherever there’s even a half-conversation, / we remember the...
• Stalin Epigram, by Darran Anderson
  We live, not feeling the earth beneath us / At ten paces our words evaporate. / But when there’s the will to crack open our mouths / our words o...
• Stalin epigram, by Meryl Natchez
  We live, but cannot feel the earth, / And if we speak, we can’t be heard. But wherever you hear a half-conversation, / They talk of that backwood...
• The Stalin Epigram, by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin
  Our lives no longer feel ground under them. / At ten paces you can’t hear our words. But whenever there’s a snatch of talk / it turns to the Krem...
• The Stalin Epigram, or the Kremlin Highlander, by Rupert Moreton
  We’re unable to live, for this country’s absurd, / At ten paces’ remove are our voices unheard, / But opinion, when muttered, half-spoken, / Kre...
• We are living, but can’t feel the land where we stay..., by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
  We are living, but can’t feel the land where we stay, / More than ten steps away you can’t hear what we say. / But if people would talk on occasio...
• We exist out of touch with the land underneath..., by Dmitry Berger
  We exist out of touch with the land underneath / Our words from ten paces conceal our grief / Just the Kremlin's highlander's voice's present. / ...
• We live without feeling our country’s pulse..., by Ian Probstein
  We live without feeling our country’s pulse, / We can’t hear ourselves, no one hears us, / If a word is uttered by chance, / Kremlin highlander ...
• We live without feeling the country beneath us..., by David McDuff
  We live without feeling the country beneath us, / our speech at ten paces inaudible, and where there are enough for half a conversation / the nam...
• We live, but feel no land at our feet..., by Alistair Noon
  We live, but feel no land at our feet, / nor ten steps off any whisper of speech. / Where half a conversation finds enough lips, / it’s the Krem...
• We live, deaf to the land beneath us..., by John Simkin
  We live, deaf to the land beneath us, / Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, / All we hear is the Kremlin mountaineer, / The murderer and p...
• We live, not feeling the country beneath us..., by Albert C. Todd
  We live, not feeling the country beneath us, / Our speech inaudible ten steps away, / But where they're up to half a conversation — / They'll sp...
• We live, not sensing our own country beneath us..., by A. S. Kline
  We live, not sensing our own country beneath us, / ten steps away they evaporate, our speeches, but where enough meet for half-conversation, / th...
• We live, not sensing our own country beneath us..., by Scott Horton
  We live, not sensing our own country beneath us, / Ten steps away they dissolve, our speeches, / But where enough meet for half-conversation, / ...

in german

Ossip Mandelstam (deutsch)

• Das Stalin-Epigramm, Kurt Lhotzky
  Wir Lebenden spüren den Boden nicht mehr, / Wir reden, dass uns auf zehn Schritt keiner hört, Doch wo wir noch Sprechen vernehmen, — / Betrifft's...

in french

Ossip Mandelstam (français)

• Nous vivons sourds à la terre sous nos pieds..., inconnu auteur
  Nous vivons sourds à la terre sous nos pieds, / À dix pas personne ne discerne nos paroles. / On entend seulement le montagnard du Kremlin, / Le...

in spanish

Ósip Mandelshtam (español)

• Epigrama contra Stalin, José Manuel Prieto
  Vivimos sin sentir el país a nuestros pies, / nuestras palabras no se escuchan a diez pasos. / La más breve de las pláticas / gravita, quejosa, ...

in italian

Osip Mandel`štam (italiano)

• Non ci sentiamo il paese sotto i piedi..., Serena Vitale
  Non ci sentiamo il paese sotto i piedi, / a dieci passi di distanza non si sentono le voci, e ovunque ci sia spazio per un mezzo discorso / salta...

in portuguese

Óssip Mandelstam (português)

• Vivemos sem sentir o chão nos pés..., Augusto de Campos
  Vivemos sem sentir o chão nos pés, / A dez passos não se ouve a nossa voz. Uma palavra a mais e o montanhez / Do Kremlin vem: chegou a nossa vez....

in dutch

Osip Mandelstam (nederlands)

• Onze woorden zijn tien passen ver niet te horen..., Arie Van Der Ent
  Onze woorden zijn tien passen ver niet te horen / en we voelen geen land onder ons, waar we horen. / En hoe weinig aan taal je maar vuil hebt te m...