Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

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Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin World Poems

  • 1.
    O, Voice of time! O, metal's clang!
    Your dreadful call distresses me,
    Your groan doth beckon, beckon me
    It beckons, brings me closer to my grave.
    ...
  • 2.
    I built myself a monument, eternal and miraculous,
    It's higher than the Pyramids, than metal it is harder;
    Swift winds and thunder cannot knock it down
    The flight of time cannot demolish it.
    ...
  • 3.
    God-like Tsarevna
    Of the Kirgiz-Kaisatskii horde!
    Whose wisdom matchless
    Opened the true path
    ...
  • 4.
    I'll leave the mortal world behind,
    Take wing in an flight fantastical,
    With singing, my eternal soul
    Will rise up swan-like in the air.
    ...
Total 4 World Poems by Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

Top 10 most used topics by Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

Time 6 Death 5 Sea 5 Heart 5 God 5 Great 4 Fate 4 Eternal 4 Soul 4 World 4

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