Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 June 1889
CountryRussian Federation
time sky wings
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
wings black betrayed
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
recalls knows
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
tonight thread
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight