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I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead by Anna Akhma

10/7/2008 2:32:18 PM

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Anna Akhmatova
(1889-1966)

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I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead

I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,
Or only when the sunsets fade
Be mourned serenely in my thought?

All is for you: the daily prayer,
The sleepless heat at night,
And of my verses, the white
Flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire.

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured
Me more, not
Even the one who betrayed me to torture,
Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.

Anna Akhmatova

Read poems about / on: fire, night, sunset

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