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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Requiem by Anna Akhmatova - , . [ 1961 ] frightening Yezhov, 17 leningrad. , -, - ' '. , , , of course, . jolted torpor all of us, ( ) - ' ?' - ' .' - . [ 1- - 1957. Leningrad ] , mighty , burrows close to . -, ; , , scrape . , , , , - , ; , ; Neva, mistier: forever . . , , , , , , , hesitantly, . , , 2 satanic ? siberian ? shimmering ? each one salutation, . [ 1940 - ] [ ] , , leningrad , . , -svistit , demented , , , - , squirmed -raspylennymi tyres marias. Ii1 . . . flared, .. , -xolodnom sweat - ; streltsy (1) , Kremlin . [ 1935. . Moscow ] II Swanking , askew , , . CIII , someone else . . . , , .. . CIV , , darling, sinner Tsarskoye Selo (2) , , in hand, (3), 3 , . Back and forth - how many .. [ 1938 ] V 17 screaming, . butchers , . forever - no longer , , . , thurible, - nowhere , , . [ 1939 ] CVI even so, , , , . once more , , , , . [ 1939. ] CVII thud - . Nevermind, , . ; , living , .. . ; premonition . [ 22 - 1939. . Fontannyi Dom (4) ] CVIII - ? ; . , . . . . , , , , ( ), glimpse . . Yenisey . Blazes Pol4rna4a . -polhbili . [ 19 - 1939. Fontannyi Dom ] CIX , . alien delirium . nag , : frightening - , . [ 14 - 1940. Fontannyi Dom ] X CRUCIFIXION , . . 1. , . , ' forsaken thou hast !' , ' .. ' [ 1940. Fontannyi Dom ] 2. Magdalena smote , disciple , , , . [ 1943. Tashkent ] EPILOGUE 1. , , -kak . -belokurye . submissive , . scorching , . 2. . , , : ; no longer ; , , , ' !' by name, nowhere . , , , . , forever , . . Even if tormented 100 scream; . - someday , festivity - , ; Tsar's hallowed ; 300 no-one . , iego Marias, hatefully wounded . immovable dove sail . [ 1940 - . Fontannyi Dom ] 1 Peter 1698. exiled. 2 st Petersburg Ahmatova . 3 leningrad , - 2 . 4 leningrad Ahmatova . Sasha Soldatow Mayakovsky Bondi BlackWattle sydney 1993. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Anna Akhmatova In Memory of M B I Dont Know If Youre Alive Or Dead I Taught Myself To Live Simply I Wrung My Hands Lots Wife March Elegy Memory Of Sun Requiem Solitude The Sentence Twenty-First Night Monday Under Her Dark Veil Why Is This Age Worse You Thought I Was That Type You Will Hear Thunder

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Alfred Noyes	Algernon Swinburne	Alice Duer Miller
Alice Walker	Allen Ginsberg	Amy Clampitt
Amy Lowell	Andrew Marvell	Andrew Paterson
Anna Akhmatova	Anne Bradstreet	Anne Carson
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