<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Supplication</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Awake, awake, my Lyre!<br>And tell thy silent master's humble tale<br>In sounds that may prevail;<br>Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:<br>Though so exalted she<br>And I so lowly be<br>Tell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark, how the strings awake!<br>And, though the moving hand approach not near,<br>Themselves with awful fear<br>A kind of numerous trembling make.<br>Now all thy forces try;<br>Now all thy charms apply;<br>Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weak Lyre! thy virtue sure<br>Is useless here, since thou art only found<br>To cure, but not to wound,<br>And she to wound, but not to cure,<br>Too weak too wilt thou prove<br>My passion to remove;<br>Physic to other ills, thou'rt nourishment to love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre!<br>For thou canst never tell my humble tale<br>In sounds that will prevail,<br>Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire;<br>All thy vain mirth lay by,<br>Bid thy strings silent lie,<br>Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre, and let thy master die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abraham+Cowley">Abraham Cowley</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=338729" data-title="A Supplication de Abraham Cowley" data-description="Awake, awake, my Lyre! And tell thy silent master's humble tale In sounds that may prevail; Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire: Though so exalted she And I so lowly be Tell her, such different notes make all thy harmony. Hark, how the strings aw..."></div> </div> </div>

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