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Blok – a king
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| Blok – a king… written by Osip Mandelstam |
| PD From Comic Poems. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Блок — король.
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[To Alexander Blok] [1]
Blok — a king,
And wizard of mislead,
Doom and pain
Both crown his head.
10 December 1911
- ↑ Mandelstam’s part of the collective humorous epistle to Alexander Blok elected as a “King of poets” at the St. Petersburg restaurant “Vienna” on the 10th of December 1911.
© Dmitri Smirnov, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.
