Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 1889 – 5 Mar 1966)

• “All is despoiled, abandoned, sold …”
• “And once more the autumn blasts like Tamerlane …”
• “And the whole town is encased in ice …”
• “As a white stone in the well’s cool deepness …”
• “As if on the rim of a cloud …”
• “Behind the lake the moon’s not stirred …”
• “Bitter woman, you speak of things to come …”
• “The boy said me: ‘how painful it is!’”
• “Bury me, bury me, wind! …”
• “But I warn you, I am living for the last time …”
• “Cleopatra”
• “Crucifix”
• “The cuckoo I asked …”
• “Delightful, after all the wind and frost …”
• “Do not speak of the north and its sadness …”
• “Don’t be afraid--I can still portray …”
• “Don’t pine your heart with fleeting worldly bliss …”
• “The door is half open …”
• “Dream”
• “Drink my soul, as if with a straw …”
• “The earthly glory is like smoke …”
• “Echo”
• “Eulogy Of the Spring’s Eve”
• “Evening and slanting …”
• “Every evening I receive …”
• “Everything promised him to me …”
• “The fifth act of the drama …”
• “The first lighthouse flashed over the jetty …”
• “Forbidden Rose”
• “Fragment”
• “The Gray-Eyed King”
• “The Guest”
• “He whispers, I’m not sorry”
• “Heart’s memory of sun grows fainter …”
• “Here the loveliest of young women fight …”
• “Here we’re all drunkards and whores …”
• “How many demands the beloved can make …”
• “I am listening to the orioles’ ever mournful voice …”
• “I am not one those who left the land …”
• “I came here, in idleness …”
• “I don’t know if you’re living or dead …”
• “I dream of him less often now, thank God …”
• “I drink to our ruined house …”
• “I have come to take your place, sister …”
• “I hid my heart from you …”
• “I pray to the ray from the window-pane …”
• “I rarely think of you now …”
• “I stood for long before the hell’s gates, heavy …”
• “I was born in the right time, in whole …”
• “I won’t beg for you love: it’s laid …”
• “I wrung my hands under my dark veil …”
• “Imitation from the Armenian”
• “An Inscription on a Book”
• “It drags on forever this heavy, amber day …”
• “It is simple, it is easy …”
• “I’ve learned to live simply, wisely …”
• “I’ve written down the words …”
• “July 1914”
• “The land though not mine …”
• “Let any, who will, still bask in the south …”
• “Like someone deaf, blind and mute …”
• “Lot’s Wife”
• “March Elegy”
• “Michal”
• “Muse”
• “Music”
• “My night--I think of you obsessively …”
• “My youth was hard to endure …”
• “The mysterious spring was still enjoying itself …”
• “The New Year’s Ballad”
• “No, no, I did not love you …”
• “Not thus, from cursed lightness having disembarked …”
• “O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly …”
• “One goes in straightforward ways …”
• “The one people once called …”
• “The park was filled with light mist …”
• “Prayer”
• “Rachel”
• “Reading Hamlet”
• “Requiem”
• “The road is black by the beach …”
• “Slander”
• “Some gaze into tender faces …”
• “Somewhere there is a simple life and a world …”
• “The Song of the Last Meeting”
• “Sounds die away in the ether …”
• “Such days may meet you just before the springtime …”
• “Terror, lingering things in the dark …”
• “There are the words that couldn’t be twice said …”
• “There is a sacred boundary …”
• “There was such inexpressible sorrow …”
• “There’s none equal to me he used to cite …”
• “They didn’t bring me a letter today …”
• “Three Autumns”
• “To awake when dawn is breaking …”
• “To Death”
• “To fall ill as one should, deliriously …”
• “To the Many”
• “Turmoil”
• “The twenty-first. Night. Monday …”
• “Upon the hard crest of a snow-drift …”
• “The Verdict”
• “We had thought we were beggars …”
• “We hadn’t breathed the poppies’ somnolence …”
• “We noiselessly walked through the house …”
• “We shall not sip from the same glass …”
• “When the moon lies like a piece of Chardush melon …”
• “White Night”
• “Wild honey the scent of freedom has …”
• “Willow”
• “With pride your spirit is darkened …”
• “You know yourself that I’m not going to celebrate …”
• “You thought I was that type …”
• “You’ll live, but I’ll not; perhaps …”
• “Your palms are fiery …”