Anna Akhmatova
- To Londoners, by Don Mager
And made war with the heavens. /
Apocalypse
With implacable hand, time is writing /
Shakespeare’s twenty-fourth drama. /
We who share the formi...
- To the Londoners, by Yevgeny Bonver
The twenty-fourth drama of Shakespeare /
Time’s writing with its indifferent hand. /
We, selves, the guests of the awful Feast here, /
Better wo...
- To the Londoners, by Donald Michael Thomas
Shakespeare’s play, his twenty-fourth — /
Time is writing it impassively. /
By the leaden river what can we, /
Who know what such feasts are, / ...
in german Anna Achmatowa (deutsch)
- Für die Londoner, Sarah Kirsch
Shakespeares vierundzwanzigstes Drama /
Schreibt die Zeit mit lässiger Hand. /
Selber der scheußlichen Mahlzeit Gäste, /
Wollen wir lieber Hamle...