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Poems by Anna Akhmatova

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I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice

... Cutting the corn's ear tightly pressed to ear ...

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How can you bear to look at the Neva?

... . Not in vain am I known as the grieving one ...

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For Osip Mandelstam

... The frozen poplars, like glasses for a toast, ...

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Everything

... though we’ve longed for it since we were children ...

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Crucifix

... I This greatest hour was hallowed and thandered ...

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Celebrate

... - And if your voice, a marvellous bird’s, ...

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You Will Hear Thunder

... The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, ...

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Here Pushkin’s Endless Exile Has Begun

... The mountain grass has a smell so sweet and gentle, ...

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How Many Demands...

... . . Since you've given me neither love nor peace ...

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Alexander By Thebes

... The towers, the gates, the temples – rich and thriving… ...

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Sunshine Has Filled The Room

...   And made me forget, so now to atone, ...

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To the Many

... And they say -- it's impossible to fuse more closely, ...

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Rachel

... While pulling her braids in despair all that night ...

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"In Human Closeness There..."

... But they who reached are shocked with anguish hard -- ...

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Reading 'Hamlet'

... .." Princes always say that, being placid or fierce, ...