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Anna Akhmatova was born in 1889 in Odessa on the Black Sea coast. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, who was also a poet. He was shot as an alleged counter-revolutionary in 1921. Very little of Akhmatova's poetry was published between 1923 and 1941. After Stalin's death her poetry began to be published again. She died in 1966, in a suburb of Moscow.

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List of poems by Anna Akhmatova 81 total

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Memory of Sun
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Sunbeam 168 ViewsRate it
The Last Toast
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Muse 162 ViewsRate it
Rachel
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You Will Hear Thunder
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You, Who was Born for Poetry's Creation 146 ViewsRate it
The Sentence
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Our Native Earth
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My hands clasped under a veil
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March Elegy
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Lot's Wife
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And as it's Going
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Music
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I Have No Use For Odic Legions
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Alexander By Thebes 123 ViewsRate it
I Taught Myself to Live Simply
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Here Pushkin’s Endless Exile Has Begun
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Shade
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I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead
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Thoughts Of The Sunlight
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Twenty-First. Night. Monday
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Along the hard crust of deep snows 113 ViewsRate it
A widow in black
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Sunshine Has Filled The Room
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Reading 'Hamlet'
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I Don't Like Flowers
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To Boris Pasternak
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For Osip Mandelstam
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You'll live, but I'll not; perhaps
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Song Of The Final Meeting
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Somewhere there is a simple life
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But Listen, I Am Warning You
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In Dream 90 ViewsRate it
Why Is This Age Worse...? 89 ViewsRate it
Solitude 87 ViewsRate it
As a white stone in the well's cool deepness
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Requiem
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And you, my friends who have been called away
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Crucifix
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Now no-one will be listening to songs 84 ViewsRate it
True Tenderness
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To The Muse
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The Two Of Us Won’t Share A Glass Together
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This Evening’s Light Is Golden Bright 79 ViewsRate it
Greetings!
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He Did Love 75 ViewsRate it
Everything
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I Saw My Friend At The Front Door 75 ViewsRate it
To Fall Ill as One Should, Deliriously
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Here is my gift
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Thunder
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If the Moon on the skies Does not Roam 68 ViewsRate it
Departure
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Gray-Eyed King
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I Was Born in the Right Time, in Whole
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Let Somebody Else Rest by Southern Sea
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I Wrung My Hands
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The Victory
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One goes in straightforward ways 60 ViewsRate it
Willow
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In The Evening
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Under Her Dark Veil
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How can you bear to look at the Neva?
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In Human Closeness there is a Secret Edge
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Lying in me
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How Many Demands...
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They Didn’t Meet 51 ViewsRate it
You Thought I Was That Type 50 ViewsRate it
I Hear the Oriole's Always-Grieving Voice
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Celebrate
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The Pillow Hot 43 ViewsRate it
White Night 42 ViewsRate it
So again we triumph!
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To the Many
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There are the words that couldn’t be twice said 35 ViewsRate it
In Memory of M.B.
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My Way 22 ViewsRate it
And As It's Going...
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And Pushkin's Exile Had
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As a White Stone
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