Konstantin Simonov

Poems of Love and War

Hours of Friendship 1938

Comrades in Arms 1938

The Lieutenant 1939

The British Military Cemetery at Sebastopol 1939

"All through his life he drew the scenes of war..." 1939

"You used to say to me 'I love you!'.. 1941

Wait for Me 1941

The Child on the Gun-Carriage 1941

Smolenshchina 1941

"Above our submarine's black nose she rises.." (Venus) 1941

"If God in his almighty Power.." 1941

"Don't be angry if I write.." 1941

At the Stage Door 1941

"I want to say to you 'You are my wife!'.." 1941

"As I recall the year that's ending" 1941

Blindness 1941

The Hostess 1942

"With death an inch above my head" 1942

"Well may I curse in years to come.." 1942

Refugees 1942

The Coward 1942

The House at Vyazma 1943

An Open Letter to a woman in Vichuga 1943

Wives 1943

The Cup of Death 1945

"In a dream, I saw a wedding.." 1945

"With glass a thousand miles thick.." 1946

"You get from time to time a man.." 1946

"The sense that love is coming's worse.." 1946

"I buried love and doomed myself to be.." 1948

"I cannot write a single line of verse.." 1954

The Colonel's Son 1954