<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341177" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until he hears Apollo's call <br>To make a hallowed sacrifice, <br>A Poet lives in feeble thrall <br>To people's empty vanities; <br>And silent is his sacred lyre,<br>His soul partakes of chilly sleep, <br>And of the world's unworthy sons <br>He is, perhaps, the very least. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But once Divinity's command <br>Approaches his exquisite ear, <br>The poet's soul awakens, poised,<br>Just like an eagle stirred from sleep.<br>All worldly pleasures leave him cold, <br>From common talk he stays aloof, <br>And will not lower his proud head<br>Before the nation's sacred cow. <br>Untamed and brooding, he takes flight, <br>Seething with sound and agitation, <br>To reach a sea-swept, desert shore,<br>A woodland wide and murmuring...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Sergeyevich+Pushkin">Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin</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=341177" data-title="The Poet de Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin" data-description="Until he hears Apollo's call To make a hallowed sacrifice, A Poet lives in feeble thrall To people's empty vanities; And silent is his sacred lyre, His soul partakes of chilly sleep, And of the world's unworthy sons He is, perhaps, the very ..."></div> </div> </div>

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