Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.

Translator's Preface

1

(6)

Judith Hemschemeyer

``Mirrors and Masks: The Life and Poetic Works of Anna Akhmatova''

7

(22)

Roberta Reeder

from EVENING

In Tsarskoye Selo

``They're leading the horses...''

29

(2)

``...And there's my marble double...''

31

(1)

``...A dark-skinned youth wandered...''

31

(2)

``Under her dark veil she wrung her hands...''

33

(2)

``The heart's memory of the sun grows faint...''

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(2)

The Song of the Last Meeting

37

(2)

``When you're drunk it's so much fun...''

39

(2)

The Gray-Eyed King

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(2)

He loved...

43

(2)

``The park was filled with light mist...''

45

(2)

``And when we had cursed each other...''

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(2)

``At the new moon he abandoned me...''

49

(2)

from ROSARY

Outing

51

(2)

``We are all carousers and loose women here...''

53

(2)

``How many demands the beloved can make!''

55

(2)

``We met for the last time...''

57

(2)

``It drags on forever---this heavy, amber day!''

59

(2)

``I've learned to live simply, wisely...''

61

(2)

Confession

63

(2)

``Under the icon, a threadbare rug...''

65

(2)

The Guest

67

(2)

from WHITE FLOCK

Solitude

69

(2)

``They are flying, they are still on their way...''

71

(2)

``There is a sacred boundary between those who are close...''

73

(2)

``For us to lose freshness of words...''

75

(2)

``Somewhere there is a simple life...''

77

(6)

July 1914

``It smells of burning...''

79

(2)

``The sweet smell of juniper...''

81

(2)

In Memoriam, July 19, 1914

83

(2)

``I don't know if you're living or dead...''

85

(2)

``The twenty-first. Night. Monday...''

87

(2)

``I dream of him less often now, thank God...''

89

(2)

``How I love, how I loved to look...''

91

(2)

from PLANTAIN

``I am listening to the orioles' ever mournful voice...''

93

(2)

``Now no one will listen to songs...''

95

(2)

``Over the snowdrift's hard crust...''

97

(2)

``And when in suicidal anguish...''

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(2)

from ANNO DOMINI MCMXXI

Petrograd, 1919

101

(2)

``I am not with those who abandoned their land...''

103

(2)

``Submissive to you? You're out of your mind!''

105

(2)

``He whispers: `I'm not sorry...''

107

(2)

Lot's Wife

109

(2)

Michal

111

(2)

``Everything has been plundered...''

113

(2)

``Terror, fingering things in the dark...''

115

(2)

``Today is the nameday of Our Lady of Smolensk...''

117

(2)

Apparition

119

(2)

from REED

``I hid my heart from you...''

121

(2)

The Poet

123

(4)

Voronezh

127

(2)

``Wild honey smells like freedom...''

129

(2)

Requiem

131

(22)

Cleopatra

153

(2)

Dante

155

(2)

The Last Toast

157

(2)

Mayakovsky in 1913

159

(2)

from SEVENTH BOOK

``The first lighthouse flashed over the jetty...''

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(2)

Creation

163

(2)

``I don't need martial hosts arrayed in odes...''

165

(1)

``Probably much still remains...''

165

(2)

To the Memory of a Friend

167

(2)

``I haven't been here for seven hundred years...''

169

(2)

``When the moon lies like a slice of Chardush melon...''

171

(2)

``Those lynx eyes of yours, Asia...''

173

(8)

Cinque

``As if on the rim of a cloud...''

175

(2)

``Sounds die away in the ether...''

177

(1)

``For so long I hated...''

177

(2)

``You know yourself that I'm not going to celebrate...''

179

(1)

``We hadn't breathed the poppies' somnolence...''

179

(2)

The Burnt Notebook

181

(2)

``You invented me. There is no such earthly being...''

183

(2)

``Don't be afraid---I can still portray...''

185

(2)

One More Toast

187

(2)

from ODD NUMBER

Seaside Sonnet

189

(2)

The Last One

191

(2)

Native Land

193

(2)

The Last Rose

195

(2)

To the Memory of V.S. Sreznevskaya

197

(2)

Northern Elegies

199

(22)

UNCOLLECTED POEMS AND FRAGMENTS 1904--1917

``In the corner an old man resembling a ram...''

221

(2)

``Some great misfortune happened to me here...''

223

(2)

``You, the leader, standing by the spring...''

225

(2)

White Night

227

(2)

1919-1941

``In the city of the gatekeeper of paradise...''

229

(2)

``It would be so easy to abandon this life...''

231

(2)

``Why did you poison the water...''

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(2)

Imitation from the Armenian

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(2)

To the Memory of M.B.

237

(2)

Belated Reply

239

(2)

1941--MAY 1945

``De profundis...My generation tasted little honey...''

241

(2)

SEPTEMBER 1945--1956

``I wouldn't have known how the quince tree blossoms...''

243

(2)

``Everyone left and no one returned...''

245

(2)

Festive Song

247

(2)

``Others go off with their loved ones...''

249

(2)

1957--1966

``They will forget?-How astonishing!''

251

(2)

``I was captivated by mistake...''

253

(2)

Creation

255

(2)

``You are to live, but I, not very much longer...''

257

(2)

``These praises for me are not due to rank...''

259

(2)

Listening to Singing

261

(2)

The Publication of a Book

263

(2)

The North

265

(2)

Christmastime (December 24)

267

(2)

Notes to Poems

269

(14)

Notes to ``Mirrors and Masks''

283

(8)

Russian Table of Contents

291

(3)

Biographical Notes

294

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