(23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966 / Odessa)

poet Anna Akhmatova
#94 on top 500 poets

Poems of Anna Akhmatova

1. A widow in black 4/8/2010
2. Alexander By Thebes 4/8/2010
3. Along the hard crust of deep snows 4/8/2010
4. And as it's Going 4/8/2010
5. And you, my friends who have been called away 4/8/2010
6. As a white stone in the well's cool deepness 4/8/2010
7. But Listen, I Am Warning You 4/8/2010
8. Celebrate 1/21/2003
9. Crucifix 1/1/2004
10. Departure 4/8/2010
11. Everything 1/21/2003
12. For Osip Mandelstam 1/21/2003
13. Gray-Eyed King 4/8/2010
14. Greetings! 4/8/2010
15. He Did Love 4/8/2010
16. Here is my gift 4/8/2010
17. Here Pushkin’s Endless Exile Has Begun 4/8/2010
18. How can you bear to look at the Neva? 1/1/2004
19. How Many Demands... 4/8/2010
20. I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead 1/3/2003

Sunbeam

I pray to the sunbeam from the window -
It is pale, thin, straight.
Since morning I have been silent,
And my heart - is split.
The copper on my washstand
Has turned green,
But the sunbeam plays on it
So charmingly.
How innocent it is, and simple,

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