PoemTrue Tenderness
Author / PoetAnna Akhmatova
TagsDesire, Love, Silence, Tenderness

True tenderness is silent
and can’t be mistaken for anything else.
In vain with earnest desire
you cover my shoulders with fur;
In vain you try to persuade me
of the merits of first love.
But I know too well the meaning
of your persistent burning glances.

Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
23 Jun 1889 - 5 Mar 1966
Region: Eastern Europe
Period: Modernist
Movement: Acmeism
Awards: Lenin Prize

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