Poetry
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Anna Akhmatova – You should appear less often in my dreams
You should appear less often in my dreams,Since we meet so frequently;Yet only in night’s sanctuaryAre you sad, troubled, and…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 7
Lo! in the orient when the gracious lightLifts up his burning head, each under eyeDoth homage to his new-appearing sight,Serving…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 6
Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface,In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 5
Those hours, that with gentle work did frameThe lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,Will play the tyrants to the…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 4
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thy self thy beauty’s legacy?Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,And being frank she…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 3
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestNow is the time that face should form another;Whose fresh repair…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 2
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,Thy youth’s proud livery so gazed on…
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,His tender…
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