O God

O’ God !

I wander all day and pine through time,

And seek some comfort in my rhyme.

The noblest of rhymes overflow with love,

The sweetest line – the musical and pure –

Are written down for the heart as a cure.

Men turn as they pay to the holy place;

To Laila’s home I turn my face.

Twice people say their prayers at dawn;

When I think of her’

I know not the times I repeat my own,

Laila hid behind a crowd;

Her lip betrayed a smile,

Like the break of morn,

Or the sun as it shone.

Her sweet breath filled the air,

Made perfumed roses seem less fair.

A shiver ran through my form

From head to toe

As though my eye had met her own.

Let’s love:

All men are mortal but love never dies:

Laila and I loved with young eyes:

Our love story which is now alive,

To our successors will continue to survive.

Generations of men will die and go past,

But our true love will forever last.

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Poems in English 

• A Serenade poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid’s Metamorphoses, book 14 [v. 623-771] poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• Verses Left by Mr. Pope poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• Translation of a Prayer of Brutus poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-Day poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Three Gentle Shepherds poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Temple of Fame poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
• The Dunciad: Book II. poem – Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope

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