Under a dark veil she wrung her hands…
Under a dark veil she wrung her hands...
‘What makes you grieve like this?’
I have made my lover drunk
with a bitter sadness.
I’ll never forget it. He left, reeling,
his mouth twisted, desolate...
I ran downstairs, ran into the courtyard,
managed to catch him opening the gate
and begged him: ‘It was all a joke, don’t leave,
please... I will lose my mind!’
But he only smiled, calmly, terribly,
and said to me: ‘Get inside out of the wind.’
1911
‘What makes you grieve like this?’
I have made my lover drunk
with a bitter sadness.
I’ll never forget it. He left, reeling,
his mouth twisted, desolate...
I ran downstairs, ran into the courtyard,
managed to catch him opening the gate
and begged him: ‘It was all a joke, don’t leave,
please... I will lose my mind!’
But he only smiled, calmly, terribly,
and said to me: ‘Get inside out of the wind.’
1911
poetrymagazines' note: Anna Akhmatova's Russian texts copyright © 2005 by Margarita Novgorodova. The rights are granted by FTM Agency, Ltd., Russia
Translated by Colette Bryce
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