<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet. The lake and star</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mountain lake, o'ershadowed by the hills,<br> May still gaze heavenward on the evening star,<br> Whose distant light its dark recesses fills,<br> Though boundless distance must divide them far;<br> Still may the lake the star's bright image bear,<br> Still may the star, from its blue ether dome,<br> Shower down its silver beams across the gloom,<br> And light the wave that wanders darkly there.<br> Star of my life! thus do I turn to thee<br> Amid the shadows that above me roll;<br> Thus from thy distant sphere thou shinest on me;<br> Thus does thine image float upon my soul,<br> Through the wide space that must our lives dissever<br> Far as the lake and star, ah me! forever.</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=115228" data-title="Sonnet. The lake and star de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="The mountain lake, o'ershadowed by the hills,/ May still gaze heavenward on the evening star,/ Whose distant light its dark recesses fills,/ Though boundless distance must divide them far;/ Still may the lake the star's bright image bear,/ Stil..."></div> </div> </div>

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