I can-t sleep. Homer, and the taut white sails.
I could the list of ships read only to a half:
The long-long breed, the train of flying cranes
Had lifted once the ancient Greece above.
The wedge of cranes to alien far frontier --
On heads of kings, as foam, crowns shine --
Where do you sail? If Helen were not here,
What Troy then means for you, Achaeia-s people fine?
And Homer and the sea are moved by only love.
Whom must I listen to? Homer is silent yet,
And blackened sea with roar comes above,
Sunk in triumphant noise, head of my sleepless bed.
I Can-t Sleep
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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Poem topics: I love you, people, sleep, head, white, listen, silent, ancient, shine, noise, train, greece, love, sea, long, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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