I Won’t Beg for Your Love by Anna Akhmatova

I won’t beg for your love: it’s laid
Safely to rest, let the earth settle…

Don’t expect my jealous letters

Pouring in to plague your bride.

But let me, nevertheless, advise you:

Give her my poems to read in bed,

Give her my portraits to keep — it’s wise to

Be kind like that when newly-wed.⠀