Infelix

Where is the promise of my years;

Once written on my brow?

Ere errors, agonies and fears

Brought with them all that speaks in tears,

Ere I had sunk beneath my peers;

Where sleeps that promise now?

Naught lingers to redeem those hours,

Still, still to memory sweet!

The flowers that bloomed in sunny bowers

Are withered all; and Evil towers

Supreme above her sister powers

Of Sorrow and Deceit.

I look along the columned years,

And see Life’s riven fane,

Just where it fell, amid the jeers

Of scornful lips, whose mocking sneers,

For ever hiss within mine ears

To break the sleep of pain.

I can but own my life is vain

A desert void of peace;

I missed the goal I sought to gain,

I missed the measure of the strain

That lulls Fame’s fever in the brain,

And bids Earth’s tumult cease.

Myself! alas for theme so poor

A theme but rich in Fear;

I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,

A spectre not within the door,

A houseless shadow evermore,

An exile lingering here.

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Poems in English 

• Юлия Друнина – Сверстницам by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Страна Юность by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Старый Крым by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Стал холоден мой тёплый старый дом by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Сочетание by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Слалом by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Шторм by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Ржавчина by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Русский вечер by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Я все хочу расслушать by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Возврат весны by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Лучший перл таится by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Говорят придет пора by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Да, я вижу by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир by Юлия Жадовская
• Юлия Жадовская – Ах, бабушкин сад by Юлия Жадовская
• Юнна Мориц – Зимнее by Юнна Мориц

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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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