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O let me go, Voronezh, O return me
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| O let me go, Voronezh, O return me… written by Osip Mandelstam |
| From Voronezh Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Пусти меня, отдай меня, Воронеж. |
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O let me go, Voronezh, O return me:
You will drop me, Voronezh, or neglect me,
You will let fall me down or put me back, –
Voronezh – whim, Voronezh – raven, knife…
April 1935
