Osip Mandelshtam
- Fever rustles and lisps..., by Ilya Shambat
Fever rustles and lisps /
Grasshopper hours are churning, /
And dry stove crackles — This /
Means that red silk is burning.
Why do mice whet wi...
- What grasshopper-clocks are singing..., by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
What grasshopper-clocks are singing — /
Fever is murmuring mad, /
And the withered stove is rustling /
Like a silk that’s burning red.
What ...