Poem of the Day » Anna Akhmatova http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Everything is Plundered http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/06/03/everything-is-plundered/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/06/03/everything-is-plundered/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:20:43 +0000 Tejvan Pettinger http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/06/03/everything-is-plundered/ Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Death’s great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?

By day, from the surrounding woods,
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.

And the miraculous comes so close
to the ruined, dirty houses -
something not known to anyone at all,
but wild in our breast for centuries.

~

By: Anna Akhmatova

tr. by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

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