What is the evil deed I have committed?
Seducer, criminal - is this the word
for me who set the entire world a-dreaming
of my poor little girl?
Oh, I know well that I am feared by people:
They burn the likes of me for wizard wiles
and as of poison in a hollow smaragd
of my art die.
Amusing, though, that at the last indention,
despite proofreaders and my age’s ban,
a Russian branch’s shadow shall be playing
upon the marble of my hand.
Vladimir Nabokov Thursday Aug 2 01:15pm
tagged as: vladimir nabokov. nabokov. poetry. poem. what is the evil deed?.
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