<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115229" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a silent poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the sons of Genius rise<br> The nobles of our land;<br> And foremost in the gathering ranks<br> I see the poet band.<br> <br> That Priesthood of the beautiful,<br> To whom alone 'tis given<br> To lift our spirits from the dust,<br> Back to their native heaven.<br> <br> But there is one amid the throng,<br> Not past his manhood's prime;<br> The laurel wreath upon his brow,<br> Has greener grown with time.<br> <br> And in his eye yet glows the light<br> Of the celestial fire;<br> But cast beside him, on the earth,<br> Is his neglected lyre.<br> <br> The lyre, whose high, heroic notes<br> A thousand hearts have stirred,<br> Lies mute, -- the skillful hand no more<br> Awakes one slumbering chord.<br> <br> Oh poet! rouse thee from thy dreams!<br> Wake from thy voiceless slumbers!<br> And once again give to the breeze<br> The music of thy numbers.<br> <br> Sing, for our country claims her bard,<br> She listens for thy strains;<br> Sing, for upon our jarring earth,<br> Too much of discord reigns.</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=115229" data-title="To a silent poet de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="I see the sons of Genius rise/ The nobles of our land;/ And foremost in the gathering ranks/ I see the poet band./ / That Priesthood of the beautiful,/ To whom alone 'tis given/ To lift our spirits from the dust,/ Back to their native heaven./..."></div> </div> </div>

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