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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• Ольга Берггольц – Я тайно и горько ревную by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Из блокнота сорок первого года by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Мы предчувствовали полыханье by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Я иду по местам боев by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Я говорю by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Второй разговор с соседкой by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Встреча by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Возвращение by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Вот я выбирала для разлуки by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой) by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – В ложе Цимлянского моря by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – В доме Павлова by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Украина by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Твоя молодость by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Триптих 1949 года by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Тост by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Так еще ни разу не забыла by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Старая гвардия by Ольга Берггольц

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