Fifteen Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Symbolist and Acmeist poet, is introduced through this selection of fifteen of her poems in an English translation: • Song of the Last Meeting • I see the faded flag over the customs house • A Room at Evening • The Prayer • Verses about St Petersburg • When in suicidal depression • How is this century worse than those which went before? • We thought that we were poor • The Memory of the 19th July 1914 • May Snow • Comfort • Petrograd 1919 • In the Evening • All has been looted, betrayed, sold • July 1914