<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Many Demands...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many demands the beloved can make!<br>The woman discarded, none.<br>How glad I am that today the water<br>Under the colorless ice is motionless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I stand - Christ help me! -<br>On this shroud that is brittle and bright,<br>But save my letters<br>So that our descendants can decide,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that you, courageous and wise,<br>Will be seen by them with greater clarity.<br>Perhaps we may leave some gaps<br>In your glorious biography?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too sweet is earthly drink,<br>Too tight the nets of love.<br>Sometime let the children read<br>My name in their lesson book,<br>And on learning the sad story,<br>Let them smile shyly. . . <br>Since you've given me neither love nor peace<br>Grant me bitter glory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anna+Akhmatova">Anna Akhmatova</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345046" data-title="How Many Demands... de Anna Akhmatova" data-description="How many demands the beloved can make! The woman discarded, none. How glad I am that today the water Under the colorless ice is motionless. And I stand - Christ help me! - On this shroud that is brittle and bright, But save my letters So that our..."></div> </div> </div>

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