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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Chapter/Section Title
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Translator's Preface
1
6
Judith Hemschemeyer
``Mirrors and Masks: The Life and Poetic Works of Anna Akhmatova''
7
22
Roberta Reeder
from EVENING
In Tsarskoye Selo
``They're leading the horses...''
29
2
``...And there's my marble double...''
31
1
``...A dark-skinned youth wandered...''
31
2
``Under her dark veil she wrung her hands...''
33
2
``The heart's memory of the sun grows faint...''
35
2
The Song of the Last Meeting
37
2
``When you're drunk it's so much fun...''
39
2
The Gray-Eyed King
41
2
He loved...
43
2
``The park was filled with light mist...''
45
2
``And when we had cursed each other...''
47
2
``At the new moon he abandoned me...''
49
2
from ROSARY
Outing
51
2
``We are all carousers and loose women here...''
53
2
``How many demands the beloved can make!''
55
2
``We met for the last time...''
57
2
``It drags on forever---this heavy, amber day!''
59
2
``I've learned to live simply, wisely...''
61
2
Confession
63
2
``Under the icon, a threadbare rug...''
65
2
The Guest
67
2
from WHITE FLOCK
Solitude
69
2
``They are flying, they are still on their way...''
71
2
``There is a sacred boundary between those who are close...''
73
2
``For us to lose freshness of words...''
75
2
``Somewhere there is a simple life...''
77
6
July 1914
``It smells of burning...''
79
2
``The sweet smell of juniper...''
81
2
In Memoriam, July 19, 1914
83
2
``I don't know if you're living or dead...''
85
2
``The twenty-first. Night. Monday...''
87
2
``I dream of him less often now, thank God...''
89
2
``How I love, how I loved to look...''
91
2
from PLANTAIN
``I am listening to the orioles' ever mournful voice...''
93
2
``Now no one will listen to songs...''
95
2
``Over the snowdrift's hard crust...''
97
2
``And when in suicidal anguish...''
99
2
from ANNO DOMINI MCMXXI
Petrograd, 1919
101
2
``I am not with those who abandoned their land...''
103
2
``Submissive to you? You're out of your mind!''
105
2
``He whispers: `I'm not sorry...''
107
2
Lot's Wife
109
2
Michal
111
2
``Everything has been plundered...''
113
2
``Terror, fingering things in the dark...''
115
2
``Today is the nameday of Our Lady of Smolensk...''
117
2
Apparition
119
2
from REED
``I hid my heart from you...''
121
2
The Poet
123
4
Voronezh
127
2
``Wild honey smells like freedom...''
129
2
Requiem
131
22
Cleopatra
153
2
Dante
155
2
The Last Toast
157
2
Mayakovsky in 1913
159
2
from SEVENTH BOOK
``The first lighthouse flashed over the jetty...''
161
2
Creation
163
2
``I don't need martial hosts arrayed in odes...''
165
1
``Probably much still remains...''
165
2
To the Memory of a Friend
167
2
``I haven't been here for seven hundred years...''
169
2
``When the moon lies like a slice of Chardush melon...''
171
2
``Those lynx eyes of yours, Asia...''
173
8
Cinque
``As if on the rim of a cloud...''
175
2
``Sounds die away in the ether...''
177
1
``For so long I hated...''
177
2
``You know yourself that I'm not going to celebrate...''
179
1
``We hadn't breathed the poppies' somnolence...''
179
2
The Burnt Notebook
181
2
``You invented me. There is no such earthly being...''
183
2
``Don't be afraid---I can still portray...''
185
2
One More Toast
187
2
from ODD NUMBER
Seaside Sonnet
189
2
The Last One
191
2
Native Land
193
2
The Last Rose
195
2
To the Memory of V.S. Sreznevskaya
197
2
Northern Elegies
199
22
UNCOLLECTED POEMS AND FRAGMENTS 1904--1917
``In the corner an old man resembling a ram...''
221
2
``Some great misfortune happened to me here...''
223
2
``You, the leader, standing by the spring...''
225
2
White Night
227
2
1919-1941
``In the city of the gatekeeper of paradise...''
229
2
``It would be so easy to abandon this life...''
231
2
``Why did you poison the water...''
233
2
Imitation from the Armenian
235
2
To the Memory of M.B.
237
2
Belated Reply
239
2
1941--MAY 1945
``De profundis...My generation tasted little honey...''
241
2
SEPTEMBER 1945--1956
``I wouldn't have known how the quince tree blossoms...''
243
2
``Everyone left and no one returned...''
245
2
Festive Song
247
2
``Others go off with their loved ones...''
249
2
1957--1966
``They will forget?-How astonishing!''
251
2
``I was captivated by mistake...''
253
2
Creation
255
2
``You are to live, but I, not very much longer...''
257
2
``These praises for me are not due to rank...''
259
2
Listening to Singing
261
2
The Publication of a Book
263
2
The North
265
2
Christmastime (December 24)
267
2
Notes to Poems
269
14
Notes to ``Mirrors and Masks''
283
8
Russian Table of Contents
291
3
Biographical Notes
294