Poetry Books by France Preseren
Die Grundlagen Der Slowenischen Kultur
Authors: Kommission für interdisziplinäre Südosteuropa-Forschung. Konferenz, France Bernik, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Südosteuropa-Kommission. Konferenz
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published Date: 2010
Categories: Literary Criticism
Slovenia has been a member of the European Union since 2004. For over 1000 years the small country with its population of not more than two million inhabitants was dependent on foreign powers. Still, the many different influences were not able to obliterate the language and the unique characteristics of the Slovenian people. These essays explore the Slovenians' capability to resist, the national poet France PreSeren, the development of administrative structures in the Yugoslav period and Slovenian art and culture.
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A Woman-s Sonnets: Ii
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet.
Let me a little longer hold thy hand.
Too soon it is to bid me to forget
The joys I was so late to understand.
The future holds but a blank face for me,
The past is all confused with tears and grey,
But the sweet present, while thy smiles I see,
Is perfect sunlight, an unclouded day.
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