You will hear thunder and remember me,And think: she wanted storms. The rimOf the...
Anna Akhmatova
 |
Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet who lived from 1889 to 1966. She is regarded as one of the most significant and influential poets of the 20th century, both in Russia and worldwide. She wrote lyric poems, cycles, memoirs, translations, and literary criticism. |
Celebrate our anniversary – can’t you seetonight the snowy night of our first wintercomes...
Do not cry for me, Mother, seeing me in the grave. IThis greatest hour...
Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,black death’s wing’s overhead.Everything’s eaten by hunger, unsated,so why does...
And the town is frozen solid in a vice,Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.Over...
How can you bear to look at the Neva?How can you bear to cross...
I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice,And the rich summer’s welcome loss I hearIn the...
I taught myself to live simply and wisely,to look at the sky and pray...
Lying in me, as though it were a whiteStone in the depths of a...
I pray to the sunbeam from the window –It is pale, thin, straight.Since morning...