<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Solitude [Singurătate]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the curtains pulled together<br>At my table made of wood<br>Near the fire burning slowly<br>I am in a thinking mood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through my mind are swiftly passing<br>Many thoughts that it recalls,<br>Chirping like a group of crickets<br>Among black and ancient walls. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the soul then they are falling,<br>Breaking less and sometimes more,<br>As the burning wax is dripping<br>On the church's marble floor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the chamber, at the corners<br>Spider webs hang all around,<br>While the mice are slowly sneaking <br>On the shelves and on the ground. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this peace reigning all over<br>I am casting bitter looks<br>When I hear the mice are crunching<br>The hard covers of my books. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, how many times I wanted<br>To reject the lyre's call,<br>To forget my desolation<br>And my rhymes once and for all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then come the mice and crickets,<br>Walking slowly all the time, <br>Bringing back my gloomy feeling,<br>Which becomes again a rhyme. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes... but not very often...<br>When the lamp burns and I rest,<br>Suddenly, I hear the door knob<br>And my heart leaps from my chest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is her and in a moment<br>All my desert house looks right<br>And my dusky life is lighted<br>By her icon in the night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm upset that time still passes<br>And at such a hurried pace,<br>When I'm talking to my darling<br>Hand in hand and face to face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mihai+Eminescu">Mihai Eminescu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589764" data-title="Solitude [Singurătate] de Mihai Eminescu" data-description="With the curtains pulled together/At my table made of wood/Near the fire burning slowly/I am in a thinking mood. /Through my mind are swiftly passing/Many thoughts that it recalls,/Chirping like a group of crickets/Among black and ancient walls. /..."></div> </div> </div>

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