<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet. On a picture of the Virgin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the young mother clasp, for the first time,<br> The mortal child that earthly love has given,<br> With a deep joy preluding that of heaven;<br> Who shall describe thy ecstacy sublime,<br> Oh Virgin mother! when upon thy ear<br> The message of the announcing angel fell,<br> In heavenly tones to calm thy rising fear,<br> And thy approaching glory to fortell.<br> Was ever mother so divinely blest,<br> As when, the glow of Heaven yet clinging round him,<br> Before the weight of human grief had bound him,<br> The gentle Christ-child to thy heart was prest?<br> Oh, blessed among women! joy like thine<br> What hand shall dare describe! alas, not mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115135" data-title="Sonnet. On a picture of the Virgin de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="If the young mother clasp, for the first time,/ The mortal child that earthly love has given,/ With a deep joy preluding that of heaven;/ Who shall describe thy ecstacy sublime,/ Oh Virgin mother! when upon thy ear/ The message of the announcin..."></div> </div> </div>

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