<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eros</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,<br>With rising Anthesterion rose,<br>And all Hellenic heights acclaimed<br> Eros.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea one pearl, the shore one rose,<br>All round him all the flower-month flamed<br>And lightened, laughing off repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Earth's heart, sublime and unashamed,<br>Knew, even perchance as man's heart knows,<br>The thirst of all men's nature named<br> Eros.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eros, a fire of heart untamed,<br>A light of spirit in sense that glows,<br>Flamed heavenward still ere earth defamed<br> Eros.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor fear nor shame durst curb or close<br>His golden godhead, marred and maimed,<br>Fast round with bonds that burnt and froze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere evil faith struck blind and lamed<br>Love, pure as fire or flowers or snows,<br>Earth hailed as blameless and unblamed<br> Eros.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eros, with shafts by thousands aimed<br>At laughing lovers round in rows,<br>Fades from their sight whose tongues proclaimed<br> Eros.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But higher than transient shapes or shows<br>The light of love in life inflamed<br>Springs, toward no goal that these disclose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above those heavens which passion claimed<br>Shines, veiled by change that ebbs and flows,<br>The soul in all things born or framed,<br> Eros.</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=341981" data-title="Eros de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="Eros, from rest in isles far-famed, With rising Anthesterion rose, And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros. The sea one pearl, the shore one rose, All round him all the flower-month flamed And lightened, laughing off repose. Earth's heart, subl..."></div> </div> </div>

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