<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above the ruin of God's holy place, <br>Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, <br>Whose hands, when men had craved substantial food, <br>Gave not, nor folded when they cried, Embrace, <br>I saw exalted in the latter days <br>Her whom west winds with natal foam bedewed, <br>Wafted toward Cyprus, lily-breasted, nude, <br>Standing with arms out-stretched and flower-like face. <br>And, sick with all those centuries of tears <br>Shed in the penance for factitious woe, <br>Once more I saw the nations at her feet, <br>For Love shone in their eyes, and in their ears <br>Come unto me, Love beckoned them, for lo! <br>The breast your lips abjured is still as sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Seeger">Alan Seeger</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=340453" data-title="Sonnet XV de Alan Seeger" data-description="Above the ruin of God's holy place, Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, Whose hands, when men had craved substantial food, Gave not, nor folded when they cried, Embrace, I saw exalted in the latter days Her whom west winds with natal fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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