Anna Akhmatova
Appearance Of the Moon

(From "The Moon in Zenith")

A. K.

Of the pearl’s light and agate’s clouds
Of the such fairly smoked glass,
By slopes of so sudden mounds,
She sailed such solemnly in skies —
As if the Moon Sonata’s sounds
Had cut our roadway at once.

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver