Anna Akhmatova
- There are Four of Us, by Alexandra Harrington
- There are Four of Us, by Donald Michael Thomas
- There are four of us, by Andrey Kneller
«You'd be always out / In villages around / Having fun at feasts / I'd be on my own, / In the wood or home, / Watching plants and trees. / / Girls were, sewing, spinning / Grannies played with children / I was all alone, / Gentle as a berry / Still as captive birdie / In a fl...»
«You are adorable / As you can be, / Your hand's as white / As snow to me. / You're unapproachable, / Far from the world, / The whole of you / Is unavoidable. / / You're unavoidable / Just like your grief, / your fingers, hands, / Which never lose their warmth, / The quiet ...»
«Floweret, faded and forsaken, / Fragile beauty of the lea, / Autumn's cruel hand hath taken / All thy summer charms from thee. Heigho! that the years must bring / This same destiny to all; / One by one our joys take wing, / One by one your petals fall. So each evening rings the knell /...»
«Hier encor l’assaut des titans / Ruait les colonnes guerrières / Dont les larges flancs palpitants / Craquaient sous l’essieu des tonnerres. / / Mais laissant percer peu à peu / Son sourire que rien n’étonne, / Par le ciel qui redevient bleu / Voici s’épanouir l’automn...»