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Anna Akhmatova
(1889-1966 / Odessa / Ukraine)
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29 poems of Anna Akhmatova
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It was a time when only the dead
smiled, happy in their peace.
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Stars of Death stood over us,
and innocent Russia squirmed
under the bloody boots,
under the wheels of ...
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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet. "Requiem," introduction, trans. by Richard McKane (1985).
Though Akhmatova's long poem about the Stalini...
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''The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.''
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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet. "Two Poems," no. 2, l. 1 (1956), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965).
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''Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust—of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold—smells of nothing.''
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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet. "Wild Honey Smells of Freedom," lines 1-4, as translated by Lenore Mayhew and William McNaughton (1943).
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