05 Mar 2019
Anna Akhmatova Died This Day in 1966
Acmeists, Anna Akhmatova, Poetry
About her husband, Nicolai Gumilev.
He loved…
He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
Old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
And raspberry jam with his tea,
And womanish hysteria.
… And he had married me.
– by Ðнна Ðхматова (Anna Akhmatova) (1911)
– from Вечер (Evening, 1912), translation by D. M. Thomas.
