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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 

• Владимир Высоцкий – Вот и настал этот час опять by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Вот, главный вход by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Водой наполненные горсти by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Веселая покойницкая by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – Побег на рывок by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – В холода, в холода by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – В тюрьме Таганской нас стало мало by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – В тайгу by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владимир Высоцкий – В Средней Азии безобразие by Владимир Высоцкий
• Владислав Ходасевич – Опять во тьме. У наших ног by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Окна во двор by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Обо всем в одних стихах не скажешь by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Новый год by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Ни розового сада by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Нет, не шотландской королевой by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Владислав Ходасевич – Нет, молодость, ты мне была верна by Всеволод Ходасевич
• Яков Полонский – Диссонанс by Яков Полонский

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