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Слушать(AI)Tears In Sleep
All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day,
And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's breast,
Shed tears, like a task not to be put away—-In the false light, false grief in my happy bed,
A labor of tears, set against joy's undoing.
I would not wake at your word,
I had tears to say.
I clung to the bars of the dream and they were said,
And pain's derisive hand had given me
From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing.
Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in
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