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Слушать(AI)The Watch
I
ED on my hot, hard bed;
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went Like my continual discontent,
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick;
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick.
Frances Darwin Cornford
Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her fathe
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