Why Is This Age Worse...? Comments
Why is this age worse than earlier ages?
In a stupor of grief and dread
have we not fingered the foulest wounds
and left them unhealed by our hands?
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That last stanza chilled me to the bone. When a poet pegs it, I think the reader feels a shiver go up their spine and a desire to look behind one and see if something dark is there. No wonder she is ranked as one of the four best Russian poets.
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7/19/2025 3:32:13 AM # 1.0.0
Anyone know when this was written? ? cant find it anywhere
It was written in 1919.