Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally

On surprise.

become a stranger

To need of pity

Or, if compassion be freely

Given out

Take only enough

Stop short of urge to plead

Then purge away the need.

Wish for nothing larger

Than your own small heart

Or greater than a star;

Tame wild disappointment

With caress unmoved and cold

Make of it a parka

For your soul.

Discover the reason why

So tiny human midget

Exists at all

So scared unwise

But expect nothing. Live frugally

On surprise.

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Poems in English 

• Валерий Брюсов – Испанская песенка by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Искушение by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Искатель by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Инкогнито by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез ) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Il bacio by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Идут года. Но с прежней страстью by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Идеал by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И снова давние картины by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – И небо и серое море by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Грустный вечер by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Гребцы триремы by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Городу дифирамб by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Город женщин by Валерий Брюсов

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