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— Vahan Teryan, I Love Your Dark and Wicked Eyes

[text ID: I love your eyes, their drunken golden haze, eyes that magnetize the lost like wordless beams and torture the soul with their pitiless caress. I love their dark and mysterious depths.]

The Analysis of Yearning (Garod), Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

In travail were heaven and earth,

In travail, too, the purple sea!

The travail held in the sea the small red reed.

Through the hollow of the stalk came forth smoke,

Through the hollow of the stalk came forth flame,

And out of the flame a youth ran!

Fiery hair had he,

Ay, too, he had flaming beard,

And his eyes, they were as suns!

- "the birth of vahagn" by Moses of Khoren