LE POESIE DI VLADIMIR NABOKOV

And I rest where I awoke

In the sea shade — l’ombre glauque —

Of a legendary oak;

Where the woods get ever dimmer,

Where the Phantom Orchids

glimmer —

Esmeralda, immer immer.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Selected Poems (Knopf, $30), edited by Thomas Karshan

Fonte NYTimes