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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About Anna Akhmatova

Timeline (1889 - 1966)

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English version by
Stanley Kunitz

Original Language
Russian

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,

Themes
  Heart
  Night
  Sky
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?

By day, from the surrounding woods,
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.

And the miraculous comes so close
to the ruined, dirty houses --
something not known to anyone at all,
but wild in our breast for centuries.

 

1921

 

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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