<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117322" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What a Wretched Woman Said to Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the broad East was laced with tender rings<br> Of widening light; the Daybreak shone afar;<br>Deep in the hollow, 'twixt her fiery wings,<br> Fluttered the morning star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cloud, that through the time of darkness went<br> With wanton winds, now, heavy-hearted, came<br>And fell upon the sunshine, penitent,<br> And burning up with shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grass was wet with dew; the sheep-fields lay<br> Lapping together far as eye could see;<br>And the great harvest hung the golden way<br> Of Nature's charity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My house was full of comfort; I was propped<br> With life's delights, all sweet as they could be,<br>When at my door a wretched woman stopped,<br> And, weeping, said to me,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Its rose-root in youth's seasonable hours<br> Love in thy bosom set, so blest wert thou;<br>Hence all the pretty little red-mouthed flowers<br> That climb and kiss thee now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I loved, but I must stifle Nature's cries<br> With old dry blood, else perish, I was told;<br>Hence the young light shrunk up within my eyes,<br> And left them blank and bold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I take my deeds, all, bad as they have been,--<br> The way was dark, the awful pitfall bare;--<br>In my weak hands, up through the fires of sin,<br> I hold them for my prayer."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The thick, tough husk of evil grows about<br> Each soul that lives," I mused, "but doth it kill?<br>When the tree rots, the imprisoned wedge falls out,<br> Rusted, but iron still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Shall He who to the daisy has access,<br> Reaching it down its little lamp of dew<br>To light it up through earth, do any less,<br> Last and best work, for you?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Cary">Alice Cary</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=117322" data-title="What a Wretched Woman Said to Me de Alice Cary" data-description="All the broad East was laced with tender rings/ Of widening light; the Daybreak shone afar;/Deep in the hollow, 'twixt her fiery wings,/ Fluttered the morning star./A cloud, that through the time of darkness went/ With wanton winds, now, heavy-hea..."></div> </div> </div>

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