<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Retrospect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your arms was still delight,<br>Quiet as a street at night;<br>And thoughts of you, I do remember,<br>Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,<br>Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.<br>Love, in you, went passing by,<br>Penetrative, remote, and rare,<br>Like a bird in the wide air,<br>And, as the bird, it left no trace<br>In the heaven of your face.<br>In your stupidity I found<br>The sweet hush after a sweet sound.<br>All about you was the light<br>That dims the greying end of night;<br>Desire was the unrisen sun,<br>Joy the day not yet begun,<br>With tree whispering to tree,<br>Without wind, quietly.<br>Wisdom slept within your hair,<br>And Long-Suffering was there,<br>And, in the flowing of your dress,<br>Undiscerning Tenderness.<br>And when you thought, it seemed to me,<br>Infinitely, and like a sea,<br>About the slight world you had known<br>Your vast unconsciousness was thrown. . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O haven without wave or tide!<br>Silence, in which all songs have died!<br>Holy book, where hearts are still!<br>And home at length under the hill!<br>O mother quiet, breasts of peace,<br>Where love itself would faint and cease!<br>O infinite deep I never knew,<br>I would come back, come back to you,<br>Find you, as a pool unstirred,<br>Kneel down by you, and never a word,<br>Lay my head, and nothing said,<br>In your hands, ungarlanded;<br>And a long watch you would keep;<br>And I should sleep, and I should sleep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rupert+Brooke">Rupert Brooke</a><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=115919" data-title="Retrospect de Rupert Brooke" data-description="In your arms was still delight,/Quiet as a street at night;/And thoughts of you, I do remember,/Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,/Were dark clouds in a moonless sky./Love, in you, went passing by,/Penetrative, remote, and rare,/Like a bird ..."></div> </div> </div>

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