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Anna Achmatova: Muse

Anna Achmatova

(1889 – 1966)

 

Muza

Kogda ja noč’ju ždu ee prixoda,

Žizn’, kažetsja, visit na voloske.

Cto pocesti, cto junost’, cto svoboda

Pred miloj gost’ej s dudockoj v ruke.

 

I vot vošla. Otkinuv pokryvalo,

Vnimatel’no vzgljanula na menja.

Ej govorju: “Ty l’ Dantu diktovala

Stranicy Ada?” Otvecaet: “Ja”.

(1924)

 

Muse

When, at night, I waited for her, impatient,

Life seemed to me, as if hanging by a thread.

What just means liberty, or youth, or approbation,

When compared with the gentle piper’s tread?

 

And she came in, threw out the mantle’s edges,

She declined to me with a sincere heed.

I said to her, “Did you dictate the Pages

Of Hell to Dante?” She answered: “Yes, I did.”

(1924)
 

Anna Andrejevna Achmatova poetry

(Анна Андреевна Ахматова)

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