Memory Of Sun

Anna AkhmatovaAnna Akhmatova

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Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
Grass grows yellower.
Faintly if at all the early snowflakes
Hover, hover.Water becoming ice is slowing in
The narrow channels.
Nothing at all will happen here again,
Will ever happen.Against the sky the willow spreads a fan
The silk's torn off.
Maybe it's better I did not become
Your wife.Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
What is it? -- Dark?
Perhaps! Winter will have occupied us
In the night.
Anna Akhmatova
About the poet

Anna Akhmatova

1889 - 1966/RussianAnna Akhmatova is a pseudonym of ANNA ANDREYEVNA GORENKO (b. June 11 [June 23, New Style], 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire--d. March 5, 1966, Domodedovo, near Moscow), Russian poet recognized at her death as the g…

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