Literature
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Anna Akhmatova How can you bear to view the Neva
How can you bear to view the Neva,How can you bear to cross its bridges? …No surprise I’m marked for…
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Anna Akhmatova How I loved, and love, to look
How I loved, and love, to lookAt your chained shores,At the balconies on which centuriesNever set foot.And you are truly…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 154
The little Love-god lying once asleep,Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keepCame…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 153
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:A maid of Dian’s this advantage found,And his love-kindling fire did quickly steepIn…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 152
In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn,But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;In act thy bed-vow broke,…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 151
Love is too young to know what conscience is,Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?Then, gentle cheater, urge…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 150
O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,With insufficiency my heart to sway?To make me give the lie to…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 149
Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,When I against myself with thee partake?Do I not think on thee,…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 148
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,Which have no correspondence with true sight;Or, if they have, where…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 147
My love is as a fever longing still,For that which longer nurseth the disease;Feeding on that which doth preserve the…
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