<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Etude Realiste</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink,<br> Might tempt, should heaven see meet,<br>An angel's lips to kiss, we think,<br> A baby's feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat<br> They stretch and spread and wink<br>Their ten soft buds that part and meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No flower-bells that expand and shrink<br> Gleam half so heavenly sweet<br>As shine on life's untrodden brink<br> A baby's feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A baby's hands, like rosebuds furled<br> Whence yet no leaf expands,<br>Ope if you touch, though close upcurled,<br> A baby's hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, fast as warriors grip their brands<br> When battle's bolt is hurled,<br>They close, clenched hard like tightening bands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No rosebuds yet by dawn impearled<br> Match, even in loveliest lands,<br>The sweetest flowers in all the world -<br> A baby's hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A baby's eyes, ere speech begin,<br> Ere lips learn words or sighs,<br>Bless all things bright enough to win<br> A baby's eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, while the sweet thing laughs and lies,<br> And sleep flows out and in,<br>Sees perfect in them Paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their glance might cast out pain and sin,<br> Their speech make dumb the wise,<br>By mute glad godhead felt within<br> A baby's eyes.</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=341982" data-title="Etude Realiste de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet. No..."></div> </div> </div>

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