Slowly does the river...

Slowly does the river along the valley flow,
A house there is on the hill, of many windows.
And here we'll live like in Catherine's times:
Attend the services and greet the crops.
Having endured a two day parting,
Coming is he, a guest, along the golden wheatfield.
And in the sitting room kissing the granny's hand
And on the steep staircase my lips.

 

by Anna Akhmatova
Summer 1917
Poem from Plantain(1921)
Translated by Ljubov V. Kuchkina

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