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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Veronica's Book | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Dedication | |
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| In Place of a Preface | |
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| Two Epigraphs | |
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| Prologue: Chant--Fatherhoodland | |
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| On the Day of First Meeting | |
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| My Daughter's First Week | |
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| Heaven-Gramophone | |
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| Or--Who Loves to Me | |
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| Appearance in a Smile | |
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| On Days of Illness | |
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| Beginning of the "Period of Likenesses" | |
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| And: Not Touching | |
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| Continuation of the "Period of Likenesses" | |
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| Tranquility of a Vowel | |
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| Now | |
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| Again--A Smile | |
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| Quietness | |
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| Bed Time | |
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| Urszula and the Wild Rose | |
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| A Lost Page (Or: Snow in the Garden) | |
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| In the Fourth Month: Attempts at Singing | |
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| Song from the Days of Your Forefathers | |
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| And: At Five Months | |
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| Little Tatar Song | |
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| Tea Rose--The Only One in the Neighborhood | |
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| Note--After Rocking | |
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| Story of the Level-Crossing Gate and the Crossing Keeper's Cabin | |
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| Purer than a Tear | |
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| Roses of Eteri Aged Three | |
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| Recognition of the Name | |
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| Story of Harlequin Grown Old | |
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| Smile (Meaning "Beloved") | |
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| Mouse Gone | |
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| Again: Rocking You | |
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| Tops of the Birches--From Childhood and till Now | |
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| Again--Something from the "Period of Likenesses" | |
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| And: She Sleeps (in a Pram) by the Sea | |
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| Song of Sounds | |
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| In Days of Illness--Dream Image | |
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| Written in the Fields | |
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| Chuvash Song for a Girl Your Age | |
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| Still Remembering the Same Temple | |
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| Long Walk | |
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| And: Somewhere a Little Boy is Sleeping | |
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| Vision: A Young Girl | |
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| Phloxes in Town | |
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| Lullaby? It is Yours | |
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| Ex-Libris--For You--In Verse | |
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| Something--Again about a Boy | |
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| Your First Sea with Me | |
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| Again--Trying to Catch Expressions | |
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| Little Song for You--About your Father | |
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| Written Down While Sitting with You on the Balcony | |
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| Pause in my Daughter's "Book" | |
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| Often Five-Year-Old Asya Comes to See Us | |
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| Field Dream | |
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| Continuation | |
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| Playing Finger Games | |
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| And: Oats in Flower Beyond the Meadow | |
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| Singing and Silence | |
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| Again--The Third Grasshopper (Now--For You) | |
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| To a Friend--Instead of a Letter | |
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| First Words | |
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| Again--Closeness of Roses | |
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| Vision: A Girl | |
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| Again--She Sleeps | |
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| About This | |
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| Something Precious | |
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| And: The First Half Year | |
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| Child-And-Rose | |
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| Epilogue: Lullaby-Suwalkie | |
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| And: Farewell to the Book | |
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| A Last Word from the Author | |
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| Sleep-and-Poetry | |
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| Before and After the Book | |
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| Roses in Town | |
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| Mozart: "Cassation I" | |
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| Now there are Always Snows | |
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| About This | |
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| Snow--In an "Old" District of Moscow | |
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| Among Oaks | |
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| Leaf-Fall and Silence | |
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| Again: Appearance of a Bluetit | |
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| Snow At Midday | |
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| And--Strangely: "Somewhere"--My Daughter | |
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| Two Little Songs for the Two of Us | |
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| Again: Air in the Tops--Of Birches | |
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| My Daughter's Autumn Walk | |
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| Now Such a One Also | |
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| House--In the Grove of the World | |
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| This August's Phloxes | |
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| Supper: House Outside Town | |
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| Gift--A Birch Grove | |
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| Awaiting a Friend | |
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| House in the Field | |
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| Together | |
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| Quietness with a Happening | |
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| Drawing Long Ago | |
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| Phloxes at Night in Berlin | |
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| Two Epilogues | |
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| Daughter in a Clearing | |
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| Birch at Noon | |
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| During a Friend's Illness | |
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| Fields of this Summer | |
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| Drawing for Peter France | |
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| With an Ancient Memory | |
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| From Lines in A Dream | |
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| Day--Towards Evening | |
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| Long Ago | |
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| Beginning from the Field | |
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| The People Are A Temple | |
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| From "Long Parting" | |
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| Silvia's World | |
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| Poetry-as-Silence | |