<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On An Old Roundel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,<br>And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,<br>Crying aloud in thine ears fast sealed,<br> Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a voice in a vision that vanisheth,<br>Through the grave's gate barred and the portal steeled<br>The sound of the wail of it travelleth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed,<br>It woke response of melodious breath<br>From lips now too by thy kiss congealed,<br> Death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ages ago, from the lips of a sad glad poet<br>Whose soul was a wild dove lost in the whirling snow,<br>The soft keen plaint of his pain took voice to show it<br> Ages ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So clear, so deep, the divine drear accents flow,<br>No soul that listens may choose but thrill to know it,<br>Pierced and wrung by the passionate music's throe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For us there murmurs a nearer voice below it,<br>Known once of ears that never again shall know,<br>Now mute as the mouth which felt death's wave o'erflow it<br> Ages ago.</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=342039" data-title="On An Old Roundel de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed, And men still hear what the sweet cry saith, Crying aloud in thine ears fast sealed, Death. As a voice in a vision that vanisheth, Through the grave's gate barred and the portal steeled The sound of the w..."></div> </div> </div>

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