Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
(1886 - 1921 / Russia)
Poems by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev : 11 / 49
It Was Not Once - Poem by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
It was not only once, it will go this way,
In our fight, which is deaf and destroying:
As it happened before, you rebuffed me today –
To return, like a slave, by the morning.
Therefore, don’t be stressed, my inimical friend,
My friend - enemy, caught by black laces,
If the moans of love will be moans of pain
And the kisses will leave bloody traces.
Poems by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev : 11 / 49
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Poem Submitted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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