The Vote Excerpt

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This only grant me : that my means may lie

Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Some honour I would have,

Not from great deeds, but good alone ;

Th’ ignote are better than ill-known,

Rumor can ope the grave.

Acquaintance I would hug, but when ‘t depends

Not from the number, but the choice of friends.

Books should, not business, entertain the light,

And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night.

My house a cottage more

Than palace, and should fitting be

For all my use, no luxury.

My garden painted o’er

With nature’s hand, not art’s, and pleasures yield

Horace might envy in his Sabine field.

Thus would I double my life’s fading space,

For he that runs it well twice runs his race.

And in this true delight,

These unbought sports and happy state

I would not fear, nor wish my fate,

But boldly say each night,

To-morrow let my sun his beams display,

Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to-day.

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Poems in English 

• Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Липа by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Легенда шестая by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Когда говорю я: помилуй by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Где-нибудь в углу запущенной болезни by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Элегия осенней воды by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Две книги я несу by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Деревья, сильный ветер by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Давид поет Саулу by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Цивилизация by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Болезнь by Поэзия На Русском

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