Boris Pasternak
- For Anna Akhmatova, by A. S. Kline
I think I can call on words /
that will last: you are there. /
But if I can’t, no matter — /
I’ll persist, I won’t care.
I hear the muttering o...
- For Anna Akhmatova, by Robert Lowell
It seems I am choosing words that will stand, /
and you are in them, /
but if I blunder, it doesn’t matter — /
I must persist in my errors.
I h...
- To Anna Akhmatova, by Don Mager
I seem adroit at picking words /
As primordial as your words are. /
If wrong, — it’s all the same to me, /
I’ll go on making errors anyway.
I h...