<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Lamb’s Specimens of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF ALL the flowers of all the fields on earth<br>By wonder-working summer were made one,<br>Its fragrance were not sweeter in the sun,<br>Its treasure-house of leaves were not more worth<br>Than those wherefrom thy light of musing mirth<br>Shone, till each leaf whereon thy pen would run<br>Breathed life, and all its breath was benison.<br>Beloved beyond all names of English birth,<br>More dear than mightier memories; gentlest name<br>That ever clothed itself with flower-sweet fame,<br>Or linked itself with loftiest names of old<br>By right and might of loving; I, that am<br>Less than the least of those within thy fold,<br>Give only thanks for them to thee, Charles Lamb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many a year had borne its own bright bees<br>And slain them since thy honey-bees were hived,<br>John Day, in cells of flower-sweet verse contrived<br>So well with craft of moulding melodies,<br>Thy soul perchance in amaranth fields at ease<br>Thought not to hear the sound on earth revived<br>Of summer music from the spring derived<br>When thy song sucked the flower of flowering trees<br>But thine was not the chance of every day:<br>Time, after many a darkling hour, grew sunny,<br>And light between the clouds ere sunset swam,<br>Laughing, and kissed their darkness all away,<br>When, touched and tasted and approved, thy honey<br>Took subtler sweetness from the lips of Lamb.</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=342040" data-title="On Lamb’s Specimens of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I. IF ALL the flowers of all the fields on earth By wonder-working summer were made one, Its fragrance were not sweeter in the sun, Its treasure-house of leaves were not more worth Than those wherefrom thy light of musing mirth Shone, till each l..."></div> </div> </div>

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