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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Secret Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not one kind look....one friendly word!<br>Wilt thou in chilling silence sit;<br>Nor through the social hour afford<br>One cheering smile, or beam of wit?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet still, absorbed in studious care,<br>Neglect to waste one look on me;<br>For then my happy eyes may dare<br>To gaze and dwell unchecked on thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still in silence sit, nor deign<br>One gentle precious word to say;<br>For silent I may then remain,<br>Nor let my voice my soul betray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This faltering voice, these conscious eyes,<br>My throbbing heart too plainly speak:<br>There timid hopeless passion lies,<br>And bids it silence keep, and break .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To me how dear this twilight hour,<br>Cheered by the faggot's varying blaze!<br>If this be mine, I ask no more<br>On morn's refulgent light to gaze:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For now, while on HIS glowing cheek<br>I see the fire's red radiance fall,<br>The darkest seat I softly seek,<br>And gaze on HIM , unseen by all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His folded arms, his studious brow,<br>His thoughtful eye, unmarked, I see;<br>Nor could his voice or words bestow<br>So dear, so true a joy on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he forgets that I am near....<br>Fame, future fame, in thought he seeks:<br>To him ambition's paths appear,<br>And bright the sun of science breaks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His heart with ardent hope is filled;<br>His prospects full of beauty bloom:<br>But, oh! my heart despair has chilled,<br>My only prospect is....the tomb!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One only boon from Heaven I claim,<br>And may it grant the fond desire!<br>That I may live to hear his fame,<br>And in that throb of joy expire .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft hast thou marked my chilling eye,<br>And mourned my cold reserve to see,<br>Resolved the fickle friend to fly,<br>Who seemed unjust to worth and thee:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While I, o'erjoyed, thy anger saw....<br>Blest proof I had not tried in vain<br>To give imperious passion law,<br>And hide my bosom's conscious pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when night's sheltering darkness came,<br>And none the conscious wretch could view,<br>How fiercely burned the smothered flame!<br>How deep was every sigh I drew!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet still to thee I'll clothe my brow<br>In all that jealous pride requires;<br>My look the type of Ætna's snow....<br>My heart, of Ætna's secret fires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One little moment, short as blest,<br>Compassion Love's soft semblance wore;<br>My meagre form he fondly pressed,<br>And on his beating bosom bore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His frame with strong emotion shook,<br>And kindness tuned each faltering word;<br>While I, surprised, with anxious look<br>The meaning of his glance explored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soon my too experienced heart<br>Read nought but generous pity there;<br>I felt presumptuous hope depart,<br>And all again was dark despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet still, in memory still, my heart<br>Lives o'er that fleeting bliss again;<br>I feel his glance, his touch, impart<br>Emotion through each bursting vein.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And &quot;Once ,&quot; I cry, &quot;those eyes so sweet<br>On me with fondness deigned to shine;<br>For once I felt his bosom beat<br>Against the conscious throbs of mine!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor shall the dear remembrance die<br>While aught of life to me is given;<br>But soothe my last convulsive sigh,<br>And be, till then, my joy....my heaven!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amelia+Opie">Amelia Opie</a><div class=q>
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Wilt thou in chilling silence sit;
Nor through the social hour afford
One cheering smile, or beam of wit?

Yet still, absorbed in studious care,
Neglect to waste one look on me;
For then my happy eyes may da..."></div>
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