I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet
To die down thoroughly within my soul;
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In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
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A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
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I watch Inesilla
Thy window beneath,
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Sable clouds by tempest driven,
Snowflakes whirling in the gales,
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The days drag on, each moment multiplies Within my wounded heart the pain and sadness
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A lot of us were on the bark:
Some framed a sail for windy weather,
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What doesn't enter then my slumbering mind?
-Derzhavin
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A Drama in Verse
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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Bound for your distant home
you were leaving alien lands.
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I LOVE YOU - I love you, e'en as I
Rage at myself for this obsession,
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Day's rain is done. The rainy mist of night
Spreads on the sky, leaden apparel wearing,
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In bygone days when life's array -
The sweet song of the nightingale
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What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
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Stormy clouds delirious straying,
Showers of whirling snowflakes white,
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I loved thee; and perchance until this moment
Within my breast is smouldering still the fire!
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I loved you; even now I must confess,
Some embers of my love their fire retain;
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I saw the Death, and she was seating
By quiet entrance at my own home,
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What means my name to you?...T'will die
As does the melancholy murmur
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Gift haphazard, unavailing,
Life, why were thou given me?
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Oh, Morpheus, give me joy till morning
For my forever painful love:
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In my youth's years, she loved me, I am sure.
The flute of seven pipes she gave in my tenure
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My voice, to which love lends a tenderness and yearing, Disturbs night's dreamy calm ... Pale at my bedside burning,
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I can't sleep, and there's no light,
Mirk all round and restless slumber,
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One half Milord, one half in trade,
One half a sage, one half a dunce,
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When the loud day for men who sow and reap
Grows still, and on the silence of the town
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He's blessed, who lives in peace, that's distant
From the ignorant fobs with calls,
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You saw perched on a cliff a maid,
Her raiment white above the breakers,
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A TALE OF THE TAURIDE.
Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye,
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The Caucas lies before my feet! I stand where
Glaciers gleam, beside a precipice rock-ribbed;
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