Poetry Monday!: “Ona” (“She”) by Zinaida Gippius
For you Russian readers out there, here’s “Она” (“Ona”, “She”) (1905) by Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945).
“В своей бессовестной и жалкой низости,
Она как пыль сера, как прах земной.
И умираю я от этой близости,
От неразрывности её со мной….”
For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:
- “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “The Pulley” by George Herbert
- “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire
- “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
- “Лотова жена” (“Lotova zhena”, “Lot’s wife”) by Anna Akhmatova
- “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
- “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Les D
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