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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341949" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before Dawn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SWEET LIFE, if life were stronger,<br>Earth clear of years that wrong her,<br>Then two things might live longer,<br>Two sweeter things than they;<br>Delight, the rootless flower,<br>And love, the bloomless bower;<br>Delight that lives an hour,<br>And love that lives a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From evensong to daytime,<br>When April melts in Maytime,<br>Love lengthens out his playtime,<br>Love lessens breath by breath,<br>And kiss by kiss grows older<br>On listless throat or shoulder<br>Turned sideways now, turned colder<br>Than life that dreams of death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This one thing once worth giving<br>Life gave, and seemed worth living;<br>Sin sweet beyond forgiving<br>And brief beyond regret:<br>To laugh and love together<br>And weave with foam and feather<br>And wind and words the tether<br>Our memories play with yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, one thing worth beginning,<br>One thread in life worth spinning,<br>Ah sweet, one sin worth sinning<br>With all the whole soul’s will;<br>To lull you till one stilled you,<br>To kiss you till one killed you,<br>To feed you till one filled you,<br>Sweet lips, if love could fill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hunt sweet Love and lose him<br>Between white arms and bosom,<br>Between the bud and blossom,<br>Between your throat and chin;<br>To say of shame—what is it?<br>Of virtue—we can miss it;<br>Of sin—we can but kiss it,<br>And it’s no longer sin:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To feel the strong soul, stricken<br>Through fleshly pulses, quicken<br>Beneath swift sighs that thicken,<br>Soft hands and lips that smite;<br>Lips that no love can tire,<br>With hands that sting like fire,<br>Weaving the web Desire<br>To snare the bird Delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But love so lightly plighted,<br>Our love with torch unlighted,<br>Paused near us unaffrighted,<br>Who found and left him free;<br>None, seeing us cloven in sunder,<br>Will weep or laugh or wonder;<br>Light love stands clear of thunder,<br>And safe from winds at sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As, when late larks give warning<br>Of dying lights and dawning,<br>Night murmurs to the morning,<br>“Lie still, O love, lie still;”<br>And half her dark limbs cover<br>The white limbs of her lover,<br>With amorous plumes that hover<br>And fervent lips that chill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As scornful day represses<br>Night’s void and vain caresses,<br>And from her cloudier tresses<br>Unwinds the gold of his,<br>With limbs from limbs dividing<br>And breath by breath subsiding;<br>For love has no abiding,<br>But dies before the kiss;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So hath it been, so be it;<br>For who shall live and flee it?<br>But look that no man see it<br>Or hear it unaware;<br>Lest all who love and choose him<br>See Love, and so refuse him;<br>For all who find him lose him,<br>But all have found him fair.</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>
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Earth clear of years that wrong her,
Then two things might live longer,
Two sweeter things than they;
Delight, the rootless flower,
And love, the bloomless bower;
Delight that lives an hour,
And love that lives a..."></div>
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