

Remaining in St Petersburgh (renamed Leningrad) during the siege in the Second World War, and with her son, and her lover, Nikolai Punin, both sent to labour camps, she came to stand for the voice of an earlier Russia that had neither been silenced nor forgotten. He was shot as a counter-revolutionary in 1921. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, a poet and leader of the Acmeist movement. Born Anna Gorenko, in Odessa, on the Black Sea, she spent most of her life in St. In Anna Akhmatova, Sappho’s individualistic female voice returns again. Teacher – In Memory of Innokenty Annensky.‘The souls of those I love are on high stars.’.From – Secrets of the Trade: VII Epigram.From – Secrets of the Trade: I Creation.‘Yes, I loved those nocturnal gatherings – ’.‘The bridge of logs is black and twisted,’.Trying to place them in a pond they are going to die just like you because. ‘It’s fine here: the rustle and crackle ’ He asked me if I went to John Battle or Virginia High School, Hubbard said.‘To feel thoroughly ill, to sweat in delirium,’.‘I’m not one of those who left their land’.‘Don’t taunt your heart with earthly joys,’.‘Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,’.‘You should appear less often in my dreams’.‘Is this century worse than those before?’.‘I hear the oriole’s ever-mournful voice,’.‘I was not born too early or too late,’.I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful. Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. ‘Like a white stone in a well’s depths,’ Poems,Quotations and Poetry of Well Known Poets.‘I’ll erase this day from your memory,’.‘I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –’.‘The evening light is broad and yellow,’.‘I’ll be there and weariness will vanish.’.

‘Because somewhere there’s simplicity and light,’.The road by the seaside garden darkens,.‘To lose the freshness of speech, the simplicity of feeling,’.‘There’s a secret border in human closeness,’.‘We shall not sip from the same glass,’.‘I pray to the ray from the window-pane’.
