<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Yellow Violet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When beechen buds begin to swell,<br>And woods the blue-bird's warble know,<br>The yellow violet's modest bell<br>Peeps from last-year's leaves below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere russet fields their green resume,<br>Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare,<br>To meet thee, when thy faint perfume<br>Alone is in the virgin air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all her train, the hands of Spring<br>First plant thee in the watery mould,<br>And I have seen thee blossoming<br>Beside the snow-bank's edges cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy parent sun, who bade thee view<br>Pale skies, and chilling moisture sip<br>Has bathed thee in his own bright hue,<br>And streaked with jet thy glowing lip.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet slight thy form, and low thy seat,<br>And earthward bent thy gentle eye,<br>Unapt the passing view to meet,<br>When loftier flowers are flaunting nigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft, in the sunless April day,<br>Thy early smile has stayed my walk;<br>But midst the gorgeous blooms of May<br>I passed thee on thy humple stalk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they, who climb to wealth, forget<br>The friends in darker fortunes tried;<br>I copied them--but I regret<br>That I should ape the ways of pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when again the genial hour<br>Awakes the painted tribes of light,<br>I'll not o'er look the modest flower<br>That made the woods of April bright.</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=116447" data-title="The Yellow Violet de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="When beechen buds begin to swell,/And woods the blue-bird's warble know,/The yellow violet's modest bell/Peeps from last-year's leaves below./Ere russet fields their green resume,/Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare,/To meet thee, when thy faint ..."></div> </div> </div>

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