<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342103" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Three Faces</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.--VENTIMIGLIA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:<br>Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,<br>A tall girl paced, with eyes too proud to thank<br> The sky and sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One dead flat sapphire, void of wrath or glee,<br>Through bay on bay shone blind from bank to bank<br>The weary Mediterranean, drear to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More deep, more living, shone her eyes that drank<br>The breathless light and shed again on me,<br>Till pale before their splendour waned and shrank<br> The sky and sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.--GENOA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again the same strange might of eyes, that saw<br>In heaven and earth nought fairer, overcame<br>My sight with rapture of reiterate awe,<br> Again the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The self-same pulse of wonder shook like flame<br>The spirit of sense within me: what strange law<br>Had bid this be, for blessing or for blame?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To what veiled end that fate or chance foresaw<br>Came forth this second sister face, that came<br>Absolute, perfect, fair without a flaw,<br> Again the same?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.--VENICE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of the dark pure twilight, where the stream<br>Flows glimmering, streaked by many a birdlike bark<br>That skims the gloom whence towers and bridges gleam<br> Out of the dark,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once more a face no glance might choose but mark<br>Shone pale and bright, with eyes whose deep slow beam<br>Made quick the twilight, lifeless else and stark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The same it seemed, or mystery made it seem,<br>As those before beholden; but St. Mark<br>Ruled here the ways that showed it like a dream<br> Out of the dark.</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=342103" data-title="Three Faces de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I.--VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free, A tall girl paced, with eyes too proud to thank The sky and sea. One dead flat sapphire, void of wrath or glee, Through ..."></div> </div> </div>

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