<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Psyche</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Softly, with palpitating heart,<br>She came to where he lay concealed apart.<br>The lamp she held intensified the gloom,<br>And in the dusk wrought shadowy shapes of doom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her starry eyes<br>O'er-brimmed with troubled tears,<br>Her pulses throbbing wildly in her ears,<br>She stood beside him where he lay<br>Hushed in the deep<br>Of sweet unconscious sleep.<br>But as she stifled back her sighs<br>And tried to look upon that cherished form,<br>Remembrance shook her purpose warm,<br>And, chiding, seemed to say,—<br>"Why seek to solve, why, curious, thus destroy<br>The mystery of joy?<br>What doubt unblest, what faithless fear is this,<br>Which tempts to paths none may retrace,<br>Which moves thee—fond one!—to unveil the face<br>Of bliss?<br>Is 't not enough to feel it thine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Semele, would'st gaze on the Divine?<br>Secret the soul of Rapture dwells;<br>Love gives, yet jealous tests repels<br>Nor will of force be known,<br>And bashful Beauty, viewed too near—is gone."</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=118671" data-title="Psyche de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Softly, with palpitating heart,/She came to where he lay concealed apart./The lamp she held intensified the gloom,/And in the dusk wrought shadowy shapes of doom./Her starry eyes/O'er-brimmed with troubled tears,/Her pulses throbbing wildly in her..."></div> </div> </div>

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