<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118680" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Water Lilies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gathered them—the lilies pure and pale,<br>The golden-hearted lilies, virgin fair,<br>And in a vase of crystal, placed them where<br>Their perfumes might unceasingly exhale.<br>High in my lonely tent above the swale,<br>Above the shimmering mere and blossoms there,<br>I solaced with their sweetness my despair,<br>And fed with dews their beauteous petals frail.<br>But when the aspens felt the evening breeze,<br>And shadows 'gan across the lake to creep,<br>When hermit-thrushes to the Oreades<br>Sang vesper orisons, from cloisters deep,—<br>My lilies, lulled by native sympathies,<br>Upfolded their white leaves and fell asleep.</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=118680" data-title="Water Lilies de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="I gathered them—the lilies pure and pale,/The golden-hearted lilies, virgin fair,/And in a vase of crystal, placed them where/Their perfumes might unceasingly exhale./High in my lonely tent above the swale,/Above the shimmering mere and blossoms..."></div> </div> </div>

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