“Here the loveliest of young women fight …” by Anna Akhmatova

“Here the loveliest of young women fight …” by Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 1889 – 5 Mar 1966)

Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler

Here the loveliest of young women fight

for the honour of marrying the hangmen;

here the righteous are tortured at night

and the resolute worn down by hunger.