id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27179 Kochanowski, Jan Laments .txt text/plain 4867 499 95 To weep o'er thy deaf grave, dear maiden mine. I would thou hadst not lived that little breath-What didst thou know, but only birth, then death? And at its end do thou, with all thy charms, Kissing thy mother, thus thou saidst good-bye: For thou didst sing thy joyousness to all, Thou wouldst not have thy mother grieve, nor let Thou bearest in thy breast a star Nor dost thou grudge the poor man fame as blest Now thou hast left me, for thy sweet, brief stay. Thou didst delude me like a dream by night Dost thou not drive thy sorrow hence and die? And let thee gaze upon thy daughter's face, Doth gnaw away thy health and leave thee sick, Thy little girl hath chosen well her part, "But this thy little child need fear no more, Thy longed-for happiness thou must forego. Thy little child was mortal as thou art, ./cache/27179.txt ./txt/27179.txt