Literature
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 136
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,And will,…
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Anna Akhmatova I came here, in idleness.
I came here, in idleness.Where I’m bored: all the same to me!A sleepy hilltop mill, yes,Here years pass silently. Over…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 135
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;More than enough am I that…
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Anna Akhmatova Ice, resonant, floats by
Ice, resonant, floats by,The sky is hopelessly pale,Oh, why do you punish me?What crime am I guilty of? If you…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 134
So now I have confessed that he is thine,And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,Myself I’ll forfeit, so…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 133
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groanFor that deep wound it gives my friend and me!Is’t not enough…
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Anna Akhmatova I don’t know if you’re alive or dead
I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –Can you be found on earth so?Or only in twilit thoughts instead,Be…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 132
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,Have put on black and loving…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 131
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;For well thou know’st to my…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why…
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