<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345063" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>March Elegy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have enough treasures from the past<br>to last me longer than I need, or want.<br>You know as well as I . . . malevolent memory<br>won't let go of half of them:<br>a modest church, with its gold cupola<br>slightly askew; a harsh chorus<br>of crows; the whistle of a train;<br>a birch tree haggard in a field<br>as if it had just been sprung from jail;<br>a secret midnight conclave<br>of monumental Bible-oaks;<br>and a tiny rowboat that comes drifting out<br>of somebody's dreams, slowly foundering.<br>Winter has already loitered here,<br>lightly powdering these fields,<br>casting an impenetrable haze<br>that fills the world as far as the horizon.<br>I used to think that after we are gone<br>there's nothing, simply nothing at all.<br>Then who's that wandering by the porch<br>again and calling us by name?<br>Whose face is pressed against the frosted pane?<br>What hand out there is waving like a branch?<br>By way of reply, in that cobwebbed corner<br>a sunstruck tatter dances in the mirror.</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=345063" data-title="March Elegy de Anna Akhmatova" data-description="I have enough treasures from the past to last me longer than I need, or want. You know as well as I . . . malevolent memory won't let go of half of them: a modest church, with its gold cupola slightly askew; a harsh chorus of crows; the whistle of..."></div> </div> </div>

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