<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Fringed Gentian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,<br>And colored with the heaven's own blue,<br>That openest when the quiet light<br>Succeeds the keen and frosty night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou comest not when violets lean<br>O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen,<br>Or columbines, in purple dressed,<br>Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou waitest late and com'st alone,<br>When woods are bare and birds are flown,<br>And frosts and shortening days portend<br>The aged year is near his end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye<br>Look through its fringes to the sky,<br>Blue--blue--as if that sky let fall<br>A flower from its cerulean wall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would that thus, when I shall see<br>The hour of death draw near to me,<br>Hope, blossoming within my heart,<br>May look to heaven as I depart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=116443" data-title="To the Fringed Gentian de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,/And colored with the heaven's own blue,/That openest when the quiet light/Succeeds the keen and frosty night./Thou comest not when violets lean/O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen,/Or columbines, in purple..."></div> </div> </div>

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