The School of Night

What did I study in your School of Night?

When your mouth’s first unfathomable yes

Opened your body to be my book, I read

My answers there and learned the spell aright,

Yet, though I searched and searched, could never guess

What spirits it raised nor where their questions led.

Those others, familiar tenants of your sleep,

The whisperers, the grave somnambulists

Whose eyes turn in to scrutinize their woe,

The giant who broods above the nightmare steep,

That sleeping girl, shuddering, with clenched fists,

A vampire baby suckling at her toe,

They taught me most. The scholar held his pen

And watched his blood drip thickly on the page

To form a text in unknown characters

Which, as I scanned them, changed and changed again:

The lines grew bars, the bars a Delphic cage

And I the captive of his magic verse.

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Poems in English 

• Ольга Берггольц – Мой дом by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Мне не поведать о моей утрате by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Марш оловянных солдатиков by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Майя by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Ленинградская осень by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Ласточки над обрывом by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Кирову by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Какая тёмная зима by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Как на озёрном хуторе by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – К сердцу Родины руку тянет by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги” by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Беатриче (строгая любовь) by Ольга Берггольц

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