Anna Akhmatova
- A loved one makes her demands at will!.., by Andrey Kneller
- Always so many pleas from a lover..., by A. S. Kline
«28 March 1931 at Seven O’Clock in the Evening Lord, in broad daylight / apathy overcame me. / Allow me to lie down and fall asleep Lord, / and while I sleep fill me Lord / with your strength. / There is much I want to know, / but neither books nor people / will tell me this. / May...»
«After midnight, clean out of your hands, / the heart seizes a sliver of silence. / It lives on the quiet, it’s longing to play; / like it or not, there’s nothing quite like it. Like it or not, it can never be grasped; / so why shiver, like a child off the street, / if after midnight t...»
«Tears of humanity, tears of humanity, / flowing eternally early and late… / Flowing invisibly, flowing in secrecy, / ever abundantly, ever unceasingly — / flowing as rain flows with autumn finality / all through the night like a river in spate.»
«The gay day flames. The grass is still. / Like greedy impotence, poppies rise, / like lips that lust and poison fill, / like wings of scarlet butteflies. The gay day flames... The garden now / is empty. Lust and feast are done. / Like heads of hags, the poppies bow / beneath the bright ...»