The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics) by Robert Chandler & Boris Dralyuk & Irina Mashinski

Author:Robert Chandler & Boris Dralyuk & Irina Mashinski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780141972268
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Published: 2015-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

The Admiralty77

A dusty poplar in the northern capital,

a transparent clock face lost in the leaves;

and, shining through this green – a brother

to both sky and water – a frigate, an acropolis.

Aerial craft, touch-me-not mast, straight edge

repeating to Peter’s heirs this golden rule:

beauty is no demi-god’s caprice

but a plain carpenter’s rule, his raptor’s eye.

Four elements rule over us benignly;

free man is able to create a fifth.

Doesn’t this ark, this chastely crafted ark

deny the sovereignty of space?

Angry and whimsical, the jellyfish cling on;

anchors lie rusting like discarded ploughs –

we cast away the chains of Euclid’s space

and the world’s seas open before us.

(1913)

Robert Chandler

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