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Subject: RUSSIA - STALIN ERA Matches Found: 103 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 341, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mounds of human heads recede in the distance Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AKHMATOVA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966); Poetry And Poets; Russia - Stalin Era AND HERE, IN DEFIANCE OF THE FACT, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: About those who have died in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The ASPHYXIATED MAN, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: Green bushes are bursting with giant flowers Last Line: I who have nothing for him but this absurd remorse Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE, SELS., by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE, SELS., by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My verse will reach you Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY (A SYMPHONY), by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: The rooster had hardly crowed when timofey jumped out of the window Last Line: Thus began a beautiful summer day Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLIND HORSES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLIND HORSES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Last Line: The ages like blind horses turning a mill tread their own hoof-marks. Whose corn's ground in that mi Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era CONSTELLATION OF DEAD BROTHERS, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: Andre who was killed in riga Last Line: The course is set on hope Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not weep for me, mother Last Line: There, no one dared to look Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era DIALECTIC, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: We were born %in the time of the first perfected machine guns Last Line: Let's go, let's go, let's go! Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era EVENT ON THE STREET, by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: Once a man jumped out of a streetcar, but so clumsily that he fell Last Line: And even ivan semyonpvich karpov went into a restaurant Subject(s): Heroism; Russia - Stalin Era EVERYONE LEFT AND NO ONE RETURNED, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I would rather, as of the city's 'crazies,' %be wandering through the dying squares Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era FRESCO COME TO LIFE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shells were falling Last Line: Already rages, not a dream, %approaching, and magnificent Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era GARLAND FOR A PROPAGANDIST, by TED PAUKER Poem Source First Line: In good old stalin's early days Last Line: Whichever way its line may twist %I'll be a party hack, sir! Subject(s): Communism; Russia - Stalin Era HAMLET, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buzz subsides. I have come on stage Last Line: Life is not a stroll across a field Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era HANDS, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: What astonishing contact, old man, your hands establish with our own! Last Line: A single ray of light falls from one hand to the other, %dazzling Subject(s): Hands; Russia - Stalin Era HEIRS OF STALIN, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mute was the marble Last Line: That stalin still lives in the mausoleum Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era I WAS WASHING OUTSIDE IN THE DARKNESS, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth's moving nearer to truth and to dread Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come back to my city. These are my own old tears Last Line: And I will wait till morning for guests that I love, %and rattle the door in its chains Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia MARY MAGDALENE (1), by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as night descends, we meet Last Line: And, fainting, all my being sways %towards thee, thy burial preparing Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era MOUNDS OF HUMAN HEADS ARE WANDERING INTO THE DISTANCE, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From the dead to say the sun is shining Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era ON BERIA'S LAP, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Svetlana, are you grieving Last Line: It is a century you mourn for Subject(s): Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Russia - Stalin Era; Women's Rights PAST ONE O'CLOCK. YOU MUST HAVE GONE TO BED, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In hours like these, one rises to address %the ages, history, and all creation Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Quarrels; Russia - Stalin Era POEM NO. 286 (ON STALIN), by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live, not feeling the ground under our feet Last Line: Whenever he's got a victim, he glows like a broachested %georgian munching a raspberry Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came and took you away Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it was not under a strange sky Last Line: And then a sort of smile slid across what had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, not under a foreign heavenly-cope Last Line: There where, unhappily, my people were Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it wasn't under a foreign heaven Last Line: I was there among my countrymen, %I was where my people, unfortunately, were Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took you away at daybreak Last Line: And howl under the towers of the kremlin Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took you away at daybreak. Last Line: Crawl to the kremlin towers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic choirs the unequalled hour exalted Last Line: No one as much as dared to look that way Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels hymned the hour Last Line: Upon the mother, standing silent Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour Last Line: His mother stood apart. No other looked %into her secret eyes. Nobody dared Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Russia - Stalin Era; Women - Bible REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No foreign sky protected me Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No foreign sky protected me Last Line: Survivor of that ime, that place Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly flows the qiuet don Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent don flows silently Last Line: Say one prayer for me Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly flows the qiuet don Last Line: With husband dead, with son away %in jail. Pray for me. Pray Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently flows the gentle don Last Line: Son in irons and husband clay. %pray. Pray Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, this is not I Last Line: The lanterns ... %night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, this isn't me, someone else suffers Last Line: They should wrap up in black covers, %the streetlights should be taken away... Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound Last Line: Whisk the lamps away Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it is not I, it is someone else who is suffering Last Line: And take away the lanterns %night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you - mocker Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could have seen, mocker Last Line: Innocent lives end Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you, girl of the clever hello Last Line: There's not a sound to be heard-but how many %innocent lives are coming to an end... Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you, little scoffer Last Line: Innocent lives will be taken Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you - mocker Last Line: No sound. No sound. Yet how many %innocent lives are ending Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone should have shown you -- little jester Last Line: Tongue's in its cheek as it's swaying Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I have cried aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I cried Last Line: One huge star Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I've called you Last Line: Still tightening vice Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months I've filled the air with pleas Last Line: A gigantic star, threatening me %with death when a day or two have passed Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I have cried aloud Last Line: Stares me straight in the eyes, %promising death, ah soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeks fly out of mind Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light weeks fly Last Line: Of your high cross, and of death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly the weeks are flying Last Line: And of death I hear them speak Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeks fly out of mind Last Line: On what the high cross shows, %this body of your death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word dropped like a stone Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the word fell as a rock Last Line: This translucent day, and the emptied house Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then fell the word of stone on Last Line: This radiant day, and this empty house Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word dropped like a stone Last Line: How long have I foreseen %this brilliant day, this empty house? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case - so why not now? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you come anyway, why not now? Last Line: Is covered by the final terror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case, so why not now Last Line: I love are closing on the final horror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case - so why not now? Last Line: And the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes %is clouded over by the final horror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness lifts its wing Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness with her wind Last Line: Of the last words of consolation Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness lifts its wing Last Line: Not the thin cricket-sound %of consolation's parting word Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness trails its wing Last Line: His parting words of consolation Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such grief might make the mountains stoop Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this grief, mountains must bend down Last Line: I send [or, sent] them this goodbye and wish them well Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such grief might make the mountains stoop Last Line: To them I cry, hail and farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faced with this grief, mountains sink down Last Line: What phantoms do they see in the lunar circle? %it's to them I am sending this farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned how faces fall to bone Last Line: And a prison dove coo somewhere, over and over, %as the ships sail softly down the flowing neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE (1), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found out how faces wilt Last Line: Under the red unseeing wall Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE (2), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of remembering comes again Last Line: And the boats of the neva go by in silence Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE - I, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There I learned how faces fall apart Last Line: Under that red blind prison-wall Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Women REQUIEM: EPILOGUE - II, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the hands of the clock are nearing Last Line: And the ships sail slowly down the neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen how a face can fall like a leaf Last Line: In the bitter cold, on a hot july day %under the red wall that stared blindly Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the memorial hour's drawing near Last Line: And let in the distance the prison pigeons coo, %while along the neva, ships pass quietly through Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A FOREWORD, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of the yezhov period I spent seventeen months Last Line: Then something like a smile passed over what had once been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of yezhovism I spent seventeen months standing in Last Line: And then a sort of smile slid across what had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the awful years of yezhovian horror, I spent sev- Last Line: And I said: %-I can. %then something like a fleeting smile passed over what %once had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of the yezhov terror I spent seventeen months Last Line: Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INTRODUCTION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was a time, when only the dead Last Line: And the tires of the black maria Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INTRODUCTION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This happened when only the dead wore smiles- Last Line: Writhed under boots, all blood-bespattered, %and te wheels of many a black maria Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Dead, The; Leningrad; Petrograd REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those years only the dead smiled Last Line: Under the tyres of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Last Line: Under the crunch of bloodstained boots, %under the wheels of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era RQUIEM: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came and took you away Last Line: I'll stand and howl under the kremlin towers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Last Line: He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries. %he wishes he could hug them like big friends fr Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL (MOSCOW, 1913), by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing Last Line: Of counter-revolutionary nature? And the blue hand shakes Subject(s): Books; Mandelstam, Osip (1892-1941); Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STANZAS, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sagittarius moon. Beyond the moscow river. Night Last Line: And the pretender's arrogance - instead of the people's rights Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era SYMPHONY NO. 2, by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: Anton mikhailovich spat, said 'ugh,' spat again Last Line: Once I went to see marina petrovna, and bang! She lost all her hair. That was all Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) WHITE LOW SUN, A LOW THUNDERCLOUDS; AND BACK, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's soldiers who sing these days. O lord god Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era WITH THE RABBLE IN A DITCH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But now I remain %all by myself, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era YOU, WALKING PAST ME, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How much dark and menacing need! Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era |
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