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 

• Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Футбол by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Это было давно by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Движение by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Дождь by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Детство by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Цирк by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Читайте, деревья, стихи Гезиода by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Человек в воде by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Царица мух by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Болезнь by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Бетховен by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Бегство в Египет by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Баллада Жуковского by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Языков – Жизни баловень счастливый by Николай Языков
• Николай Языков – Землетрясенье by Николай Языков
• Николай Языков – Записки А. С. Дириной by Николай Языков
• Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…) by Николай Языков
• Николай Языков – Вторая присяга by Николай Языков

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