<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Muse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your hidden memories <br>There are fatal tidings of doom... <br>A curse on sacred traditions, <br>A desecration of happiness; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a power so alluring <br>That I am ready to repeat the rumour <br>That you have brought angels down from heaven, <br>Enticing them with your beauty... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when you mock at faith,<br>That pale, greyish-purple halo<br>Which I once saw before<br>Suddenly begins to shine above you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are you evil or good? You are altogether from another world<br>They say strange things about you<br>For some you are the Muse and a miracle.<br>For me you are torment and hell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not know why in the hour of dawn,<br>When no strength was left to me,<br>I did not perish, but caught sight of your face<br>And begged you to comfort me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted us to be enemies;<br>Why then did you make me a present<br>Of a flowery meadow and of the starry firmament --<br>The whole curse of your beauty? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your fearful caresses were more treacherous<br>Than the northern night,<br>More intoxicating than the golden champagne of Aï,<br>Briefer than a gypsy woman's love... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there was a fatal pleasure<br>In trampling on cherished and holy things;<br>And this passion, bitter as wormwood,<br>Was a frenzied delight for the heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aleksandr+Aleksandrovich+Blok">Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok</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=341025" data-title="To the Muse de Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok" data-description="In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And a power so alluring That I am ready to repeat the rumour That you have brought angels down from heaven, Enticing them ..."></div> </div> </div>

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