<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before the Hour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Untimely blossom! Poor, impatient thing,<br>That, starting rashly from the sheltering mould,<br>Bravest the peevish wind and sullen cold,<br>Mistaking thine own ardors for the spring,—<br>Thou to my heart a memory dost bring<br>Of hopes once fair like thee, like thee too bold<br>To breathe their fragrance, and their flowers un-<br>fold,<br>That droop'd, of wintry rigors languishing.<br>Nor birds, nor bees, nor waters murmuring low,<br>Nor breezes blown from dewy Arcady,<br>Found they,—earth's welcome waiting to be-<br>stow;<br>Yet sweet, they felt, sweeter than dreams, would be<br>The summer they had sought too soon to know,—<br>The summer they should never live to see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</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=118534" data-title="Before the Hour de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Untimely blossom! Poor, impatient thing,/That, starting rashly from the sheltering mould,/Bravest the peevish wind and sullen cold,/Mistaking thine own ardors for the spring,—/Thou to my heart a memory dost bring/Of hopes once fair like thee, li..."></div> </div> </div>

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