The Thraldom

I came, I saw, and was undone;

Lightning did through my bones and marrow run;

A pointed pain pierc’d deep my heart;

A swift cold trembling seiz’d on every part;

My head turn’d round, nor could it bear

The poison that was enter’d there.

So a destroying angel’s breath

Blows-in the plague, and with it hasty death;

Such was the pain, did so begin,

To the poor wretch, when Legion enter’d in.

“Forgive me, God!” I cry’d; for I

Flatter’d myself I was to die.

But quickly to my cost I found,

‘T was cruel Love, not Death, had made the wound;

Death a more generous rage does use;

Quarter to all he conquers does refuse:

Whilst Love with barbarous mercy saves

The vanquish’d lives, to make them slaves.

I am thy slave then; let me know,

Hard master! the great task I have to do:

Who pride and scorn do undergo.

In tempests and rough seas thy galleys row;

They pant, and groan, and sigh; but find

Their sighs increase the angry wind.

Like an Egyptian tyrant, some

Thou weariest out in building but a tomb;

Others, with sad and tedious art,

Labour i’ th’ quarries of a stony heart:

Of all the works thou dost assign

To all the several slaves of thine,

Employ me, mighty Love! to dig the mine.

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Poems in English 

• Владимир Луговской – Лимонная ночь by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Курсантская венгерка by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Краски by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Конек-горбунок by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Капитанский штиль by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Игорь by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Гуниб by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Фотограф by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Дорога by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Береза Карелии by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Баллада о пустыне by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок by Поэзия На Русском
• Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть IV by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть II by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожная история by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Дорога, дорога, счёта нет шагам by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок by Владимир Высоцкий
• Высоцкий – Диалог у телевизора (Ой, Вань, смотри какие клоуны): текст стиха Владимира Высоцкого – Poetry Monster by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин” by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой by Владимир Высоцкий

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