Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova Book

	Translator's Preface	1
	"Mirrors and Masks: The Life and Poetic Works of Anna Akhmatova"	7
	from Evening
	In Tsarskoye Selo
1.	"They're leading the horses..."	29
2.	"...And there's my marble double..."	31
3.	"A dark-skinned youth wandered..."	31
	"Under her dark veil she wrung her hands..."	33
	"The heart's memory of the sun grows faint..."	35
	The Song of the Last Meeting	37
	"When you're drunk it's so much fun..."	39
	The Gray-Eyed King	41
	He loved...	43
	"The park was filled with light mist..."	45
	"And when we had cursed each other..."	47
	"At the new moon he abandoned me..."	49
	from Rosary
	Outing	51
	"We are all carousers and loose women here..."	53
	"How many demands the beloved can make!"	55
	"We met for the last time..."	57
	"It drags on forever--this heavy, amber day!"	59
	"I've learned to live simply, wisely..."	61
	Confession	63
	"Under the icon, a threadbare rug..."	65
	The Guest	67
	from White Flock
	Solitude	69
	"They are flying, they are still on their way..."	71
	"There is a sacred boundary between those who are close..."	73
	"For us to lose freshness of words..."	75
	"Somewhere there is a simple life..."	77
	July 1914
1.	"It smells of burning..."	79
2.	"The sweet smell of juniper..."	81
	In Memoriam, July 19, 1914	83
	"I don't know if you're living or dead..."	85
	"The twenty-first. Night. Monday..."	87
	"I dream of him less often now, thank God..."	89
	"How I love, how I loved to look..."	91
	from Plantain
	"I am listening to the orioles' ever mournful voice..."	93
	"Now no one will listen to songs..."	95
	"Over the snowdrift's hard crust..."	97
	"And when in suicidal anguish..."	99
	from Anno Domini Mcmxxi
	Petrograd, 1919	101
	"I am not with those who abandoned their land..."	103
	"Submissive to you? You're out of your mind!"	105
	"He whispers: 'I'm not sorry..."	107
	Lot's Wife	109
	Michal	111
	"Everything has been plundered..."	113
	"Terror, fingering things in the dark..."	115
	"Today is the nameday of Our Lady of Smolensk..."	117
	Apparition	119
	from Reed
	"I hid my heart from you..."	121
	The Poet	123
	Voronezh	127
	"Wild honey smells like freedom..."	129
	Requiem	131
	Cleopatra	153
	Dante	155
	The Last Toast	157
	Mayakovsky in 1913	159
	from Seventh Book
	"The first lighthouse flashed over the jetty..."	161
	Creation	163
	"I don't need martial hosts arrayed in odes..."	165
	"Probably much still remains..."	165
	To the Memory of a Friend	167
	"I haven't been here for seven hundred years..."	169
	"When the moon lies like a slice of Chardush melon..."	171
	"Those lynx eyes of yours, Asia..."	173
	Cinque
1.	"As if on the rim of a cloud..."	175
2.	"Sounds die away in the ether..."	177
3.	"For so long I hated..."	177
4.	"You know yourself that I'm not going to celebrate..."	179
5.	"We hadn't breathed the poppies' somnolence..."	179
	The Burnt Notebook	181
	"You invented me. There is no such earthly being..."	183
	"Don't be afraid--I can still portray..."	185
	One More Toast	187
	from Odd Number
	Seaside Sonnet	189
	The Last One	191
	Native Land	193
	The Last Rose	195
	To the Memory of V.S. Sreznevskaya	197
	Northern Elegies	199
	Uncollected Poems and Fragments
	1904-1917
	"In the corner an old man resembling a ram..."	221
	"Some great misfortune happened to me here..."	223
	"You, the leader, standing by the spring..."	225
	White Night	227
	1919-1941
	"In the city of the gatekeeper of paradise..."	229
	"It would be so easy to abandon this life..."	231
	"Why did you poison the water..."	233
	Imitation from the Armenian	235
	To the Memory of M.B.	237
	Belated Reply	239
	1941-May 1945
	"De profundis... My generation tasted little honey..."	241
	September 1945-1956
	"I wouldn't have known how the quince tree blossoms..."	243
	"Everyone left and no one returned..."	245
	Festive Song	247
	"Others go off with their loved ones..."	249
	1957-1966
	"They will forget?--How astonishing!"	251
	"I was captivated by mistake..."	253
	Creation	255
	"You are to live, but I, not very much longer..."	257
	"These praises for me are not due to rank..."	259
	Listening to Singing	261
	The Publication of a Book	263
	The North	265
	Christmastime (December 24)	267
	Notes to Poems	269
	Notes to "Mirrors and Masks"	283
	Russian Table of Contents	291
	Biographical Notes	294