<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Painter on Silk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a man<br>Who made his living<br>By painting roses<br>Upon silk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sat in an upper chamber<br>And painted,<br>And the noises of the street<br>Meant nothing to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he heard bugles, and fifes, and drums,<br>He thought of red, and yellow, and white roses<br>Bursting in the sunshine,<br>And smiled as he worked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thought only of roses,<br>And silk.<br>When he could get no more silk<br>He stopped painting<br>And only thought<br>Of roses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day the conquerors<br>Entered the city,<br>The old man<br>Lay dying.<br>He heard the bugles and drums,<br>And wished he could paint the roses<br>Bursting into sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Lowell">Amy Lowell</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=343789" data-title="The Painter on Silk de Amy Lowell" data-description="There was a man Who made his living By painting roses Upon silk. He sat in an upper chamber And painted, And the noises of the street Meant nothing to him. When he heard bugles, and fifes, and drums, He thought of red, and yellow, and white rose..."></div> </div> </div>

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