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Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish-Lithuanian Romantic poet who wrote poems in Polish language. He is one of Poland's Three Bards, alongside Zygmunt .. more >>
 
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The Akkerman Steppe

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  I launch myself across the dry and open narrows,
My carriage plunging into green as if a ketch,
Floundering through the meadow flowers in the stretch.
I pass an archipelago of coral yarrows.

It’s dusk now, not a road in sight, nor ancient barrows.
I look up at the sky and look for stars to catch.
There distant clouds glint—there tomorrow starts to etch;
The Dnieper glimmers; Akkerman’s lamp shines and harrows.

I stand in stillness, hear the migratory cranes,
Their necks and wings beyond the reach of preying hawks;
Hear where the sooty copper glides across the plains,

Where on its underside a viper writhes through stalks.
Amid the hush I lean my ears down grassy lanes
And listen for a voice from home. Nobody talks.

— translated from the Polish by Leo Yankevich
first appeared in the Sarmatian Review

Adam Mickiewicz

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  Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black  (2/17/2009 6:45:00 PM)

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