Anna Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Akhmatova

Author:Anna Akhmatova [Akhmatova, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781530208869
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Friendship is weak and useless here,​

and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire,​

because the soul is free and does not know​

the slow luxuries of sensual life.

Those who try to come near it are insane​

and those who reach it are shaken by grief.

So now you know exactly why

my heart beats no faster under your hand.

1915

6

Like a white stone in a deep well​

one memory lies inside me.

I cannot and will not fight against it:​

it is joy and it is pain.

It seems to me that anyone who looks​

into my eyes will notice it immediately,​

becoming sadder and more pensive​

than someone listening to a melancholy tale.

I remember how the gods turned people​

into things, not killing their consciousness.​

And now, to keep these glorious sorrows alive,​

you have turned into my memory of you.

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