How can you bear to look at the Neva?

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova 1889–1966

How can you bear to look at the Neva? How can you bear to cross the bridges?. Not in vain am I known as the grieving one Since the time you appeared to me. The black angels' wings are sharp, Judgment Day is coming soon, And raspberry-colored bonfires bloom, Like roses, in the snow.

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