<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The earth to the sun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Sun! oh glorious Sun!<br> The spell of winter binds me strong and dread<br> In the dark sleep, the coldness of the dead;<br> And song and beauty from thy haunts are gone.<br> <br> The skies above me lower,<br> The frozen tempests beat upon my breast,<br> That wearily by its snow-shroud is prest;<br> And the wild winds rave o'er me in mad power.<br> <br> At thine averted gaze,<br> Benumbed and desolate, I droop and die:<br> Life of my life! Lord of my destiny!<br> Shine on me with thy life-imparting rays.<br> <br> Look from thy radiant throne,<br> And o'er this waste, drear and unlovely now,<br> Young summer's gorgeous loveliness shall glow,<br> And beauty clasp me in her magic zone.<br> <br> Fair landscapes shall arise,<br> O'er which a sky of tenderest blue shall bend,<br> Where forest, hill, and vale, and stream shall blend<br> In beauty like a dream of Paradise.<br> <br> And in thy living beams<br> The flowers shall wake, and every dewy cup<br> Shall send the homage of its perfume up,<br> And give thy brightness back in rosy gleams.<br> <br> A full deep symphony,<br> The voice of streams, the air's melodious sighs,<br> Songs from all living things shall mingling rise<br> In one eternal hymn of love to thee.<br> <br> * * * * * *<br> <br> In vain, oh Earth, in vain; --<br> What heeds the Sun, if light or shadow rest<br> Upon the bosom in his smile so blest,<br> Or if thou perish in thine icy chain.<br> <br> If from the shining host,<br> Like the lost Pleiad, thou wert stricken down,<br> He would not miss thee from his starry crown --<br> He would not mark one ray of brightness lost.<br> <br> Then for the song and bloom,<br> The untold wealth of beauty, buried deep<br> Within thy frozen heart, in death-like sleep,<br> Oh! mourn thou not within thy conscious tomb.</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=115261" data-title="The earth to the sun de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Oh Sun! oh glorious Sun!/ The spell of winter binds me strong and dread/ In the dark sleep, the coldness of the dead;/ And song and beauty from thy haunts are gone./ / The skies above me lower,/ The frozen tempests beat upon my breast,/ That wea..."></div> </div> </div>

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