Marina Tsvetaïeva

Classics

from “Poems for Moscow”

Marina Tsvetaïeva

From my hands—take this city not made by hands,
my strange, my beautiful brother.

Take it, church by church—all forty times forty churches,
and flying up the roofs, the small pigeons; ...  [+]

Classics

from “Poems for Blok”

Marina Tsvetaïeva

Your name is a—bird in my hand,
a piece of ice on my tongue.
The lips' quick opening.
Your name—four letters.
A ball caught in flight,
a silver bell in my mouth.

A stone thrown ...  [+]