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Sonnet​/​Loving in Secret

from Poems: A Collaboration in Space and Time by Adina Nelu

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Sonnet is an exploration into the degrading effects that lust can have on the human soul. Throughout the poem, an almost destructive passion is depicted in a potential confession. This poem is read by Clare Bennet.

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Loving in secret, I did silence hold
Deeming in this your clemency would dwell,
For when my searching eyes on yours fell
A world of shattered dreams they did behold.
I can no more. My aching love must tell
The mystery that does my heart enfold,
I wish I could drown within the radiance cold
Of that sweet soul that knows my own so well.
But look, my lips are parched with despair,
A thirsty fever does my eyes infest,
Sweet maiden, you, with long and golden hair.
But let your gentle breath my anguish wrest,
Your smile, with drunken joy, my soul ensnare;
Oh, end my pain at last... come to my breast.

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from Poems: A Collaboration in Space and Time, released January 15, 2020
poem by Mihai Eminescu
translation by Corneliu M. Popescu
read by Clare Bennett
music by Adina Nelu

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Adina Nelu Manchester, UK

Romanian-born composer for film and media whose work explores the boundaries between narrative-driven music and sonic storytelling.

Commissioned by the likes of BBC New Creatives and the GMCA, she is a HMUK Do it Differently Fund awardee and was recently selected for BAFTA Crew 2021.

Currently developing a female-centred vocal EP with the support of Help Musicians UK.
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