Literature
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 113
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,And that which governs me to go aboutDoth part his function,…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 112
Your love and pity doth th’ impression fillWhich vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;For what care I who calls me…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 111
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,That did not better for my…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 110
Alas! ‘tis true, I have gone here and there,And made my self a motley to the view,Gored mine own thoughts,…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 109
O! never say that I was false of heart,Though absence seemed my flame to qualify,As easy might I from my…
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Anna Akhmatova I’ll be there and weariness will vanish.
I’ll be there and weariness will vanish.The cold of early morning will please.There are villages, mysterious and dark –Storehouses of…
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Anna Akhmatova I’ll erase this day from your memory
I’ll erase this day from your memory,So your vague helpless gaze will askWhere you saw Persian lilac,Swallows, and this wooden…
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Anna Akhmatova Imitation of Innokenty Annensky
And to you, my first vagary,Isaid goodbye. The east was turning blue,Though I didn’t know what you meant,You said, simply:…
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Anna Akhmatova I’m not one of those who left their land
I’m not one of those who left their landTo the mercy of the enemy.I was deaf to their gross flattery.I…
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Anna Akhmatova I pray to the ray from the window-pane
I pray to the ray from the window-pane –It’s pale, thin, and straight.All morning I was silent,My heart – split…
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