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• Gabdulla Tukay Your Hand

  Your hand makes happy me, I’m your slave, Your magic touch is a caressing wave, It shines like gold fish in a summer pond. An angel’s hand and yours in a friendly bond, My wounded soul it will help t...

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• Gabdulla Tukay The Dance

  Young couples dancing through the night, The orchestra plays loudly, what a delight! Women are offering candies for sale, Candy wraps glisten like a fairytale. Such merriment and joy, onlookers say,...

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• Gabdulla Tukay A Girl with Ugly Teeth 

  “I am constantly surrounded by guys. Each of them is trying to be nice…” Poor thing, she was completely at a loss, She had no clue how these lads to toss. No question, they were flattering her pride,...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Some People Like…

  Someone likes winter, but the freezing cold Makes poor people shiver, both young and old. And others like summer, its beauty and grace… But what about those who don’t have a place To hide from the he...

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• Gabdulla Tukay If Not For…

  So cold’s the finest art without a flaming heart. The rose in bloom is pale without a nightingale. The poet extols your image in disguise, You trust the mirror – your reflection lies. There are so m...

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• Gabdulla Tukay To… ("He met you somewhere on his way...")

  He met you somewhere on his way, The joyful lad got carried away: “Quran praises you as the best of the best? There’s no one like you in the East or West.” Amazed that the Holy Book has been mention...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Impression

  When I’ve these downfalls in life, When my pain is sharper than a knife, I begin to read the magic surahs of Quran. They send my grief and sorrow on the run. All doubt leaves my heart and I cry, Tea...

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• Gabdulla Tukay A Chat

  At times, I sit in front of her, admiring her eyes, Her pupils dark, her eyebrows black, the beautiful disguise. I don’t know where she’s coming from; she knows not what I mean, Yet hours pass by, s...

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• Gabdulla Tukay To My People

  You occupy my thoughts both day and night Your health is mine; your plight, it is my plight Oh people mine, you sacred above all You I cannot betray for all the world With boundless joy to you I will...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Love Is Strange

  It is a summer day, it is extremely hot. A man is sweating, so he takes a pot, Fills it with water, ready to cool off. He suddenly begins to tremble and to cough. Already naked, he starts having dou...

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• Gabdulla Tukay To Pushkin

  Pushkin Alexander, please accept my admiration, I am a poet too, from thee I get my inspiration. O wizard of the verse! Thou make the stones dance, To be a poet without harmony or music – not a chanc...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Hope

  My sleepy consciousness, you had enough of dreams, You, clouds, go away, chased out by the sunbeams. Blind and confused, I’m desperate and tired, O, pull me out of darkness – where’s my guide? I’m so...

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• Gabdulla Tukay The Field in Winter

  The field is covered with a blanket of snow, The earth is asleep, spring postpones her show. All nature will sleep yet another cold month, Waiting till winter surrenders to warmth. Green grass under...

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• Gabdulla Tukay The Crescent and the Sun

  There is a golden cradle in the Himalayan heights, The one who sleeps in it is guarded through the night. When the Sun is rising, the Wind is already there Praising the Sun's entrance, the world must...

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• Gabdulla Tukay My Village

  Up on the hill, is my village, my aul, There is a creek, with water pure and cool. I feel its taste, I know its every part, I love this place with all my soul and heart. Here, praised be Allah, I was...

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