There will be thunder then. Remember me.Say ‘ She asked for storms.’ The entireworld...
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. |
There will be thunder then. Remember me.Say ‘ She asked for storms.’ The entireworld...
And I grew up in patterned tranquillity,In the cool nursery of the young century.And...
Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,not sticks of burning incense.You lived...
Why is this age worse than earlier ages?In a stupor of grief and dreadhave...
And the just man trailed God’s shining agent,over a black mountain, in his giant...
You thought I was that type:That you could forget me,And that I’d plead and...
Under her dark veil she wrung her hands.“Why are you so pale today?”“Because I...
Twenty-first. Night. Monday.Silhouette of the capitol in darkness.Some good-for-nothing — who knows why —made...
And the stone word fellOn my still-living breast.Never mind, I was ready.I will manage...