title: WHY AM I GROWN SO COLD
author: Myra Cohn Livingston
description: Down Below <i>by Joan (delano) Aiken</i><br /> Fable <i>by Joan (delano) Aiken</i><br /> The Fisherman Writes A Letter To The Mermaid <i>by Joan (delano) Aiken</i><br /> In The Old House <i>by Joan (delano) Aiken</i><br /> The Fairies <i>by William Allingham</i><br /> The Island Of Yorrick <i>by Niels Mogen Bodecker</i><br /> Southern Mansion <i>by Arna Bontemps</i><br /> The Third Book Of Ayres: 28 <i>by Thomas Campion</i><br /> Fairies <i>by Hilda Conkling</i><br /> There Is A Grey Thing That Lives In The Tree-tops <i>by Stephen Crane</i><br /> The Warning <i>by Adelaide Crapsey</i><br /> Spirits <i>by Victor Hernandez Cruz</i><br /> Dirge [or, The Sea Ritual] <i>by George Darley</i><br /> Siren Chorus <i>by George Darley</i><br /> The Listeners <i>by Walter John De La Mare</i><br /> Nothing <i>by Walter John De La Mare</i><br /> The Ride-by-nights <i>by Walter John De La Mare</i><br /> The Voice <i>by Walter John De La Mare</i><br /> The Lonely House <i>by Emily Dickinson</i><br /> The Only Ghost I Ever Saw <i>by Emily Dickinson</i><br /> Witchcraft Was Hung In History <i>by Emily Dickinson</i><br /> Incantation To Oedipus <i>by John Dryden</i><br /> The Horse <i>by Jose Maria Eguren</i><br /> C Is For Charms <i>by Eleanor Farjeon</i><br /> Z Is For Zoroaster <i>by Eleanor Farjeon</i><br /> Elfin Town <i>by Rachel (lyman) Field</i><br /> The Pointed People <i>by Rachel (lyman) Field</i><br /> Nightmares <i>by Siv Cedering Fox</i><br /> Ghost House <i>by Robert Frost</i><br /> The Hill Wife: House Fear <i>by Robert Frost</i><br /> The Lockless Door <i>by Robert Frost</i><br /> Mr. Wells <i>by William Schwenck Gilbert</i><br /> The Erl-king <i>by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</i><br /> The Pumpkin <i>by Robert Ranke Graves</i><br /> The Six Badgers <i>by Robert Ranke Graves</i><br /> Welsh Incident <i>by Robert Ranke Graves</i><br /> The Phantom Horsewoman <i>by Thomas Hardy</i><br /> Who's In The Next Room? - Who? <i>by Thomas Hardy</i><br /> The Loreley <i>by Heinrich Heine</i><br /> The Beggar To Mab, The Fairie Queen <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> Charme For Stables <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> Charmes (3) <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> Charmes (4) <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> The Hag <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> The Spell; A Charme <i>by Robert Herrick</i><br /> Sometimes <i>by Hermann Hesse</i><br /> The Empty House <i>by Russell Hoban</i><br /> Troll Chanting <i>by Anselm Hollo</i><br /> Halloween Witches <i>by Felice Holman</i><br /> The Starlight Night <i>by Gerard Manley Hopkins</i><br /> The Abandoned House <i>by Patricia Hubbell</i><br /> The Fairies <i>by Patricia Hubbell</i><br /> Moon-witches <i>by Edward James Hughes</i><br /> My Aunt <i>by Edward James Hughes</i><br /> Singing On The Moon <i>by Edward James Hughes</i><br /> Galente Garden: Ii <i>by Juan Ramon Jimenez</i><br /> Winter Song <i>by Juan Ramon Jimenez</i><br /> The Witches' Sabbath <i>by Ben Jonson</i><br /> La Belle Dame Sans Merci <i>by John Keats</i><br /> The Abominable Baseball Bat <i>by X. J. Kennedy</i><br /> The Haunted Oven <i>by X. J. Kennedy</i><br /> Hickenthrift And Hickenloop <i>by X. J. Kennedy</i><br /> Once Upon A Time <i>by Kobayashi Issa</i><br /> I Called To The Wind <i>by Kyorai</i><br /> His Dream Of The Sky-land: A Farewell Poem <i>by Li Po</i><br /> The Sea Serpent Chantey <i>by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay</i><br /> The Sorceress <i>by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay</i><br /> Afreet <i>by David Mccord</i><br /> Tiggady Rue <i>by David Mccord</i><br /> Sea Monster <i>by William Stanley Merwin</i><br /> The Witch <i>by Thomas Middleton</i><br /> The Ballad Of The Harp-weaver <i>by Edna St. Vincent Millay</i><br /> The Bean-stalk <i>by Edna St. Vincent Millay</i><br /> Wraith <i>by Edna St. Vincent Millay</i><br /> Overheard On A Saltmarsh <i>by Harold Monro</i><br /> Something Is There <i>by Lilian Moore</i><br /> Ghost <i>by Christian Morgenstern</i><br /> Klabauterwife's Letter <i>by Christian Morgenstern</i><br /> Korf's Enchantment <i>by Christian Morgenstern</i><br /> The Twelve-elf <i>by Christian Morgenstern</i><br /> In Black Chasms <i>by Leslie Norris</i><br /> Merlin &amp; The Snake's Egg <i>by Leslie Norris</i><br /> Into A Forest <i>by Otsuji</i><br /> Night-piece <i>by Raymond Richard Patterson</i><br /> The Haunted Palace <i>by Edgar Allan Poe</i><br /> The Alchemist <i>by Ezra Pound</i><br /> Phantoms Of The Steppe <i>by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin</i><br /> Beware: Do Not Read This Poem <i>by Ishmael Reed</i><br /> Old Moll <i>by James Reeves</i><br /> Queer Things <i>by James Reeves</i><br /> The Toadstool Wood <i>by James Reeves</i><br /> Residence I: The Ghost Of The Cargo Boat <i>by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato</i><br /> In The Night <i>by Elizabeth Madox Roberts</i><br /> Strange Tree <i>by Elizabeth Madox Roberts</i><br /> Uncle Mells And The Witches Tree <i>by Elizabeth Madox Roberts</i><br /> The Bat <i>by Theodore Roethke</i><br /> A Sea-spell (for A Picture) <i>by Dante Gabriel Rossetti</i><br /> Barbarossa <i>by Friedrich Ruckert</i><br /> Wall Shadows <i>by Carl Sandburg</i><br /> The Masque Of Queens <i>by Walter Scott</i><br /> Song Of The Mermaids And Mermen <i>by Walter Scott</i><br /> St. Swithin's Chair, Fr. Waverley <i>by Walter Scott</i><br /> Suppose You Met A Witch <i>by Ian Serraillier</i><br /> The Witch's Cat <i>by Ian Serraillier</i><br /> Epilogue <i>by William Shakespeare</i><br /> Foul Fiend <i>by William Shakespeare</i><br /> Lullaby For Titania, Fr. A Midsummer Night's Dream <i>by William Shakespeare</i><br /> Mercuto <i>by William Shakespeare</i><br /> The Witches' Incantation [or, Meeting] <i>by William Shakespeare</i><br /> Where Spirits Live <i>by Percy Bysshe Shelley</i><br /> Magical Eraser <i>by Shelby Silverstein</i><br /> The Slithergadee <i>by Shelby Silverstein</i><br /> The Worst <i>by Shelby Silverstein</i><br /> Silent Hill <i>by Zilpha Keatley Snyder</i><br /> Long Distance (1) <i>by William Edgar Stafford</i><br /> The Bear <i>by Ann Stanford</i><br /> The Genie <i>by Ann Stanford</i><br /> The Omens <i>by Ann Stanford</i><br /> The Devil's Bag <i>by James Stephens</i><br /> In The Orchard <i>by James Stephens</i><br /> The Secret <i>by James Stephens</i><br /> The Turn Of The Road <i>by James Stephens</i><br /> In A Museum Cabinet <i>by May Swenson</i><br /> Fairyland <i>by Rabindranath Tagore</i><br /> Bugle Song Of Peace; A Prophecy For Memorial Day <i>by Alfred Tennyson</i><br /> The Kraken <i>by Alfred Tennyson</i><br /> The Mermaid <i>by Alfred Tennyson</i><br /> The Merman <i>by Alfred Tennyson</i><br /> The Hobbit <i>by John Ronald Renel Tolkien</i><br /> The Mewlips <i>by John Ronald Renel Tolkien</i><br /> Alison Gross <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> A Cornish Litany <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> The Devil's Nine Questions <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> The Elfin Knight <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> I Am Afraid <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Songs Of The Ghost Dance <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Tamlane <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> That Woman Down There Beneath The Sea <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> There Came A Gray Owl At Sunset <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> The Village Of Erith <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> An Imprecation Against Foes And Sorcerers <i>by Atharva Veda</i><br /> Sentimental Conversation <i>by Paul Verlaine</i><br /> Opposites: 32 <i>by Richard Wilbur</i><br /> Haunted House <i>by Valerie Worth</i><br /> The Cap And Bells <i>by William Butler Yeats</i><br /> The Song Of Wandering Aengus <i>by William Butler Yeats</i><br /> The Stolen Child <i>by William Butler Yeats</i><br /> The Wicked Hawthorn Tree <i>by William Butler Yeats</i><br /> Deep In A Windless <i>by Yosa Buson</i><br /> -- <i>Table of Poems from <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/poemfinder.html/${0}">Poem Finder</a></i>
zlib_text: THE BRATVA’S BABY: A DARK MAFIA
  ROMANCE
  (Wicked Doms)
  
  JANE HENRY
  
  Contents
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  Chapter 23
  Chapter 24
  Chapter 25
  Epilogue
  Island Captive preview
  About the Author
  
  Copyright 2019 by Jane Henry
  Cover design by PopKitty
  Photography by Paul Henry Serres
  
  Chapter One
  Kazimir
  The wrought iron park bench I sit on is ice cold, but I hardly feel it. I’m too intent on waiting for the
  girl to arrive. The Americans think this weather is freezing, but I grew up in the bitter cold of northern
  Russia. The cold doesn’t touch me. The ill-prepared people around me pull their coats tighter around
  their bodies and tighten their scarves around their necks. For a minute, I wonder if they’re shielding
  themselves from me, and not the icy wind.
  If they knew what I’ve done… what I’m cap