| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Broad Gold, the Evening” | | By Anna Akhmatova |
| | | BROAD gold, the evening colors glow, | |
| The April air is cool and tender. | |
| You should have come ten years ago, | |
| And yet in welcome I surrender. | |
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| Come here, sit closer in our nook, | 5 |
| And turn gay eyes at what my nurses | |
| Might never glimpse: the blue-bound book | |
| That holds my awkward childish verses. | |
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| Forgive me that I did not look | |
| Sunward with joy, but dwelt with sorrow, | 10 |
| Forgive me all whom I mistook | |
| For you, oblivious of the morrow. | | | | |
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