The Pillar of Fire : Selected Poems Book

	Translator's Preface	13
	Introduction	17
	In the Heavens	35
	Thoughts	36
	Rejection	37
	Hyena	38
	Jaguar	39
	Terror	40
	The Lion's Bride	41
	The Gardens of my Soul	42
	Plague	43
	Giraffe	44
	Lake Chad	45
	Barbarians	49
	Agamemnon's Warrior	51
	Eagle	52
	Christ	53
	Marquis de Karabas	54
	Journey to China	56
	Lakes	58
	Rendezvous	59
	'Do you remember the palace...'	60
	Kangaroo	61
	Parrot	62
	Reader of Books	63
	'Flowers don't live in my home'	64
	This Happened Often	65
	Prayer	65
	'The palm groves and the aloe thickets'	66
	Evening	67
	Captains I	68
	To a Girl	73
	Doubt	74
	Fragment	75
	Constantinople	76
	Modernity	77
	Sonnet	78
	From a Dragon's Lair	79
	I Believed, I Thought	80
	Poisoned	81
	By the Fire	82
	The Ragamuffin	84
	Venice	87
	Conversation	88
	Five-Foot Iambics	90
	Judith	93
	Stanzas	94
	Bird	95
	Cantos	96
	The Sun of the Spirit	98
	Mediaeval	99
	To Someone Going Away	100
	The Sea Again	102
	African Night	103
	The Advance	104
	Chinese Girl	105
	Heaven	106
	Islam	107
	Fable	108
	Trees	113
	Autumn	114
	Childhood	115
	The Ice Flow	116
	I and You	117
	The Peasant	118
	The Workman	120
	On the North Sea	121
	Comfort	123
	She Scatters Stars	124
	About You	125
	Dream	126
	Ezbekie	127
	The Porcelain Pavilion	131
	Moon over the Sea	132
	'Joyful heart, winged heart'	133
	Nature	134
	Three Wives of the Mandarin	135
	Happiness	136
	The Suez Canal	139
	The Equatorial Forest	141
	'From a whole bouquet of lilac'	147
	'We flew through bright alleys'	148
	Shame	149
	'Just black velvet...'	150
	'The golden night was flying by'	151
	'Monotonous, my days flash past'	152
	'The soul dozed...'	153
	'Your tormenting, miraculous'	154
	'My heart had fought for so long'	155
	'I said: "Do you want me..."'	156
	'A tenderly unprecedented joy'	157
	Haiku	157
	Memory	161
	The Forest	164
	The Word	166
	The Soul and the Body	167
	First Canto	170
	Second Canto	171
	Imitation of the Persian	172
	The Persian Miniature	173
	Sixth Sense	175
	Baby Elephant	176
	The Tram that Lost its Way	177
	Olga	180
	With the Gypsies	181
	The Drunk Dervish	183
	The Leopard	184
	The Master Craftsmen's Prayer	186
	Ring	187
	Bird-Girl	189
	My Readers	192
	Star Terror	194
	My Hour	203
	To ***	205
	'The white willow...'	206
	A Sentimental Journey	207
	The Turkey	211
	'No, nothing has changed'	212
	'The poet is lazy...'	213
	'You and I are bound...'	214
	'Don't call the blind music...'	214
	'The heart is more aflame...'	215
	'I played a joke on myself'	216
	'I came back'	217
	Notes	219
	Instead of an Epilogue: Some poems	243
	Notes to Akhmatova poems	248