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Juansher | XI c. | The Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali (Kartlis Tskhovreba, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. I, Tbilisi 1955) | Prose | “You haven’t heard about the miracles, that befell king Constantine, when led by the cross. Or which befell Julian the Apostate? How he (Julian) was killed by the heavenly arrow and how... |
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Juansher | XI c. | The Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali (Kartlis Tskhovreba, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. I, Tbilisi 1955) | Prose | “As the kindly mentioned kings, who conquered this world but did not disinherit paradise: David, Solomon and Constantine, Iovian and all their likes; but you are not like Iovian and who is a... |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “The Share was due him…” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Belated Rtveli, Santiago de Chile, 1960) | Poetry | “I moaned, like a wounded Gaul, Satiated with blood from the trenches” (pg. 1928) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “To the Memory of Simonika Berezhiani” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Belated Rtveli, Santiago de Chile, 1960) | Poetry | “And I think: might Zeus have taken you To the Olympus, like Ganymede” (pg. 142) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “Dali and Diana” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Belated Rtveli, Santiago de Chile, 1960) | Poetry | “Nine-legged Pan dances drunk in the cellar” (pg. 138) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “Little if Some Ode to Rustaveli” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Belated Rtveli, Santiago de Chile, 1960) | Poetry | “Just like Saturn, Sirius compare with the Sun There have been writers and poets aplenty: Great Homer, Khayyam and Firdousi” (pg. 135) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “Poet and Death” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Poetry, Stories and Essays about birds, Washington, 1963) | Poetry | “Curtain of dark Chaos covered The whole Universe, sparse terrain” (pg. 75) | |
Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “Pause to Rocinante” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Poetry, Stories and Essays about birds, Washington, 1963) | Poetry | “Their hungry ribs had carried them long: Genghis, Attila and Macedonian” (pg. 29) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “28 Years” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Poetry, Stories and Essays about birds, Washington, 1963) | Poetry | “Had you lived, existed in the Golden Era; You would have been protected with a hand of the beautiful queen” (pg. 28) |
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Giorgi Gamkrelidze | 1903-1975 | “To a Foreign Lady” (Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Poetry, Stories and Essays about birds, Washington, 1963) | Poetry | “Your gaze resembles that of Sphinx’s: strange in its secrecy. […] Bacchus will put rein on his wish Negro, white-teethed, will come out, black and tender, And... |
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