<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341946" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Babyhood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A baby shines as bright<br>If winter or if May be<br>On eyes that keep in sight<br> A baby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though dark the skies or grey be,<br>It fills our eyes with light,<br>If midnight or midday be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love hails it, day and night,<br>The sweetest thing that may be<br>Yet cannot praise aright<br> A baby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All heaven, in every baby born,<br>All absolute of earthly leaven,<br>Reveals itself, though man may scorn<br> All heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet man might feel all sin forgiven,<br>All grief appeased, all pain outworn,<br>By this one revelation given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soul, now forget thy burdens borne:<br>Heart, be thy joys now seven times seven:<br>Love shows in light more bright than morn<br> All heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What likeness may define, and stray not<br> From truth's exactest way,<br>A baby's beauty? Love can say not<br> What likeness may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mayflower loveliest held in May<br> Of all that shine and stay not<br>Laughs not in rosier disarray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleek satin, swansdown, buds that play not<br> As yet with winds that play,<br>Would fain be matched with this, and may not:<br> What likeness may?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rose, round whose bed<br>Dawn's cloudlets close,<br>Earth's brightest-bred<br> Rose!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No song, love knows,<br>May praise the head<br>Your curtain shows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere sleep has fled,<br>The whole child glows<br>One sweet live red<br> Rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</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=341946" data-title="Babyhood de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby. Though dark the skies or grey be, It fills our eyes with light, If midnight or midday be. Love hails it, day and night, The sweetest thing that may be Yet cannot ..."></div> </div> </div>

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