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Anna Akhmatova
Selected Poems
Including ‘Requiem’
Translated by A. S. Kline 2005,
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Contents
From: Evening, 1912………………………………………………………………………. 8
Love …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
At Tsarskoye Selo………………………………………………………………………… 10
‘Now the pillow’s,’ ………………………………………………………………………. 12
Reading Hamlet……………………………………………………………………………. 13
‘Hands clasped under the dark veil.’ ………………………………………………. 14
‘Memory of sun ebbs from the heart.’ …………………………………………….. 15
‘A grey cloud in the sky overhead,’………………………………………………… 16
Song of the Last Meeting………………………………………………………………. 17
‘Drink my soul, as if with a straw’ …………………………………………………. 18
‘I’ve written down the words’ ……………………………………………………….. 19
‘I came here, in idleness.’ ……………………………………………………………… 20
White Night…………………………………………………………………………………. 21
Evening Room……………………………………………………………………………… 22
Legend on An Unfinished Portrait………………………………………………….. 23
Imitation of Innokenty Annensky…………………………………………………… 24
‘I pray to the ray from the window-pane’………………………………………… 25
‘He loved three things, alive:’………………………………………………………… 26
From: Rosary, 1914 ……………………………………………………………………… 27
A Ride ………………………………………………………………………………………… 28
‘I won’t beg for your love.’……………………………………………………………. 29
Evening ………………………………………………………………………………………. 30
‘Here we’re all drunkards and whores,’…………………………………………… 31
‘…And no-one came to meet me’…………………………………………………… 32
‘My imagination, obediently,’ ……………………………………………………….. 33
‘We shall not sip from the same glass,’…………………………………………… 34
‘Always so many pleas from a lover!’…………………………………………….. 35
‘For the last time, we met,’ ……………………………………………………………. 36
‘The high vault is bluer’………………………………………………………………… 37
For Mikhail Lozinsky …………………………………………………………………… 38
Memory’s Voice ………………………………………………………………………….. 39
8th November 1913………………………………………………………………………. 40
‘Evening hours at the desk,’…………………………………………………………… 41
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‘My heart beats smoothly, steadily,’……………………………………………….. 42
‘As a silver, delicate strand’…………………………………………………………… 43
Venice ………………………………………………………………………………………… 44
The Guest ……………………………………………………………………………………. 45
For Alexander Blok………………………………………………………………………. 46
From: White Flock, 1917 ………………………………………………………………. 47
Solitude ………………………………………………………………………………………. 48
‘My voice is weak, but not my will’……………………………………………….. 49
‘The sky’s blue lacquer grows dim,’ ………………………………………………. 50
‘Oh, and the day was cold,’ …………………………………………………………… 51
‘There’s a secret border in human closeness,’………………………………….. 52
‘To lose the freshness of speech, the simplicity of feeling,’ ………………. 53
Reply ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 54
‘How can you bear to view the Neva,’ ……………………………………………. 55
The road by the seaside garden darkens, …………………………………………. 56
‘Like one betrothed I receive’………………………………………………………… 57
‘Because somewhere there’s simplicity and light,’ …………………………… 58
Flight ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 59
‘I rarely think of you now’…………………………………………………………….. 60
‘Already the maple leaves’ ……………………………………………………………. 61
‘Drowsiness returns me’ ……………………………………………………………….. 62
‘All I see is hilly Pavlovsk,’…………………………………………………………… 63
‘Why pretend to be’ ……………………………………………………………………… 64
‘I’ll be there and weariness will vanish.’…………………………………………. 65
‘The evening light is broad and yellow,’ …………………………………………. 66
‘I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –’…………………………………………… 67
‘I’ll erase this day from your memory,’…………………………………………… 68
‘Is my destiny so changed,’ …………………………………………………………… 69
‘Like a white stone in a well’s depths,’ …………………………………………… 70
‘I was not born too early or too late,’ ……………………………………………… 71
‘It was not mystery or grief,’ …………………………………………………………. 72
‘How I loved, and love, to look’…………………………………………………….. 73
From: Plantain, 1921……………………………………………………………………. 74
‘I asked the cuckoo’ ……………………………………………………………………… 75
‘Earthly fame is smoke,’ ……………………………………………………………….. 76
‘I hear the oriole’s ever-mournful voice,’………………………………………… 77
‘Is this century worse than those before?’ ……………………………………….. 78
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‘You should appear less often in my dreams’ ………………………………….. 79
‘No one sung about that meeting,’………………………………………………….. 80
‘Now no one will listen to my songs.’…………………………………………….. 81
‘A string of little beads at my neck,’ ………………………………………………. 82
‘Now farewell, capital,’ ………………………………………………………………… 83
From: Anno Domini MCMXXI, 1922………………………………………………. 84
Petrograd, 1919 ……………………………………………………………………………. 85
‘Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,’ …………………………………….. 86
Bezhetsk……………………………………………………………………………………… 87
‘Don’t taunt your heart with earthly joys,’ ………………………………………. 88
‘I’m not one of those who left their land’………………………………………… 89
Dark Dream: 2……………………………………………………………………………… 90
‘Ice, resonant, floats by,’……………………………………………………………….. 91
‘Why do you wander, restless?’……………………………………………………… 92
‘To feel thoroughly ill, to sweat in delirium,’ ………………………………….. 93
Lot’s Wife …………………………………………………………………………………… 94
‘It’s fine here: the rustle and crackle;’…………………………………………….. 95
‘Ah! You thought I’m the kind too,’……………………………………………….. 96
‘Let the organ peal out once more,’………………………………………………… 97
‘A cast-iron fence,’ ………………………………………………………………………. 98
‘The bridge of logs is black and twisted,’………………………………………… 99
‘There I saw out’………………………………………………………………………… 100
‘Yes, I loved those nocturnal gatherings – ’ …………………………………… 101
From: Reed, 1924-1940 ………………………………………………………………. 102
Inscription On A Book………………………………………………………………… 103
Muse…………………………………………………………………………………………. 104
To An Artist ………………………………………………………………………………. 105
‘Here Puskin’s exile began,’………………………………………………………… 106
‘This city, beloved from childhood,’ …………………………………………….. 107
Incantation…………………………………………………………………………………. 108
‘Has he sent no boat for me,’……………………………………………………….. 109
‘Some gaze into tender faces,’……………………………………………………… 110
Pasternak …………………………………………………………………………………… 111
Voronezh…………………………………………………………………………………… 112
Dante ………………………………………………………………………………………… 113
Cleopatra …………………………………………………………………………………… 114
Willow………………………………………………………………………………………. 115
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‘When someone dies’………………………………………………………………….. 116
Parting ………………………………………………………………………………………. 117
From: The Seventh Book, 1936-64………………………………………………… 118
From – Secrets of the Trade: I Creation ………………………………………… 119
From – Secrets of the Trade: VII Epigram…………………………………….. 120
Shade………………………………………………………………………………………… 121
Nox (Night)……………………………………………………………………………….. 122
‘The souls of those I love are on high stars.’………………………………….. 123
Two Poems………………………………………………………………………………… 124
Fragment …………………………………………………………………………………… 126
Portrait On A Book of Poetry ………………………………………………………. 127
‘Fumbling in black memory you’ll find’ ……………………………………….. 128
In Memory Of The Poet………………………………………………………………. 129
Sketch……………………………………………………………………………………….. 130
‘This remorseless black separation’………………………………………………. 131
In Memory of Valeriya Sreznevskaya …………………………………………… 132
In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov………………………………………………….. 133
Teacher – In Memory of Innokenty Annensky……………………………….. 134
For Osip Mandelstam………………………………………………………………….. 135
A Belated Reply…………………………………………………………………………. 136
Thunder …………………………………………………………………………………….. 137
Requiem……………………………………………………………………………………. 138
Instead of a Preface…………………………………………………………………….. 138
Dedication …………………………………………………………………………………. 139
Prologue ……………………………………………………………………………………. 140
1……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 141
2……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 142
3……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 143
4……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 144
5……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 145
6……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 146
7. The Sentencing……………………………………………………………………….. 147
8. To Death………………………………………………………………………………… 148
9……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 149
10. Crucifixion. ………………………………………………………………………….. 150
Epilogue ……………………………………………………………………………………. 151
Index by First Line……………………………………………………………………… 153