Anna Akhmatova

• Prayer, by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
  Give me comfortless seasons of sickness, / Visitations of wrath and of wrong / On my house; Lord, take child and companion, / And destroy the sw...
• Prayer, by Robert Chandler
  Grant me years of sickness and fever; / make me sleepless for months at a time. / Take away my child and my lover / and the mysterious gift of r...
• Prayer, by Andrey Kneller
  Give me sickness without an end, / Suffocation and fevers prolonged, / Take away both my child and friend, / My mysterious gift of the song — / ...
• Prayer, by Ilya Shambat
  Give me bitter years in malady / Breathlessness, sleeplessness, fever, / Both a friend and a child and mysterious / Gift take away forever — / ...

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Anna Achmatova (italiano)

• Preghiera, Gene Immediato
  Dammi amari anni di pianto, / la malattia, l'insonnia, l'affanno. / Portami via il figlio e l'amante / e il misterioso dono del canto. / Così ...