The Greatest Love

Anna SwirAnna Swir

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She is sixty. She lives
the greatest love of her life.She walks arm-in-arm with her dear one,  
her hair streams in the wind.
Her dear one says:
“You have hair like pearls.”Her children say:  
“Old fool.”
Anna Swir
About the poet

Anna Swir

1909 - 1984/PolishAnna Swir (Świrszczyńska) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to an artistic though impoverished family. She worked from an early age, supporting herself while she attended university to study medieval Polish literature. In the 1930s she worked for…

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