<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115592" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Student's Serenade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have slept upon my couch,<br>But my spirit did not rest,<br>For the labours of the day<br>Yet my weary soul opprest;<br>And, before my dreaming eyes<br>Still the learned volumes lay,<br>And I could not close their leaves,<br>And I could not turn away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I oped my eyes at last,<br>And I heard a muffled sound;<br>'Twas the night-breeze, come to say<br>That the snow was on the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I knew that there was rest<br>On the mountain's bosom free;<br>So I left my fevered couch,<br>And I flew to waken thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have flown to waken thee<br>For, if thou wilt not arise,<br>Then my soul can drink no peace<br>From these holy moonlight skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, this waste of virgin snow<br>To my sight will not be fair,<br>Unless thou wilt smiling come,<br>Love, to wander with me there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, awake! Maria, wake!<br>For, if thou couldst only know<br>How the quiet moonlight sleeps<br>On this wilderness of snow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the groves of ancient trees,<br>In their snowy garb arrayed,<br>Till they stretch into the gloom<br>Of the distant valley's shade;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know thou wouldst rejoice<br>To inhale this bracing air;<br>Thou wouldst break thy sweetest sleep<br>To behold a scene so fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er these wintry wilds, alone,<br>Thou wouldst joy to wander free;<br>And it will not please thee less,<br>Though that bliss be shared with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</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=115592" data-title="The Student's Serenade de Anne Brontë" data-description="I have slept upon my couch,/But my spirit did not rest,/For the labours of the day/Yet my weary soul opprest;/And, before my dreaming eyes/Still the learned volumes lay,/And I could not close their leaves,/And I could not turn away./But I oped my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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