Memory

How I loved you in your sleep,

With the starlight on your hair!

The touch of your lips was sweet,

Aziza whom I adore,

As I lay at your slender feet,

And against their soft palms pressed,

I fitted my face to rest.

As winds blow over the sea

From Citron gardens ashore,

Came, through your scented hair,

The breeze of the night to me.

My lips grew arid and dry,

My nerves were tense,

Though your beauty soothe the eye

It maddens the sense.

Every curve of that beauty is known to me,

Every tint of that delicate roseleaf skin,

And these are printed on ever atom of me,

Burnt in on every fibre until I die.

And for this, my sin,

I doubt if ever, though dust I be,

The dust will lose the desire,

The torment and hidden fire,

Of my passionate love for you.

Aziza whom I adore,

My dust will be full of your beauty, as is the blue

And infinite ocean full of the azure sky.

In the light that waxed and waned

Playing about your slumber in silver bars,

As the palm trees swung their feathery fronds athwart the stars,

How quiet and young you were,

Pale as the Champa flowers, violet veined,

That, sweet and fading, lay in your loosened hair.

How sweet you were in your sleep,

With the starlight on your hair!

Your throat thrown backwards, bare,

And touched with circling moonbeams, silver white

On the couch’s sombre shade.

O Aziza my one delight,

When Youth’s passionate pulses fade,

And his golden heart beats slow,

When across the infinite sky

I see the roseate glow

Of my last, last sunset flare,

I shall send my thoughts to this night

And remember you as I die,

The one thing, among all the things of this earth, found fair.

How sweet you were in your sleep,

With the starlight, silver and sable, across your hair!

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Poems in English 

• Юлия Друнина – Дочери by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Девчонка – что надо! by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Да, сердце часто ошибалось by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Чтоб человек от стужи не застыл by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Целовались by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Царевна by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Большой ребёнок ты by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Бинты by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Бежала от морозов, вот беда by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Бережем тех, кого любим by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Баллада о десанте by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Альпинисту by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – А всё равно by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Зной by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Зима, зима нагрянет скоро by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Здесь продают билеты на Парнас by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Запас прочности by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы by Юлия Друнина
• Юлия Друнина – Ялта Чехова by Юлия Друнина

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