<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345013" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gaudy Flower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHY does my Anna toss her head,<br>And look so scornfully around,<br>As if she scarcely deign'd to tread<br>Upon the daisy-dappled ground? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does fancied beauty fire thine eye, <br>The brilliant tint, the satin skin? <br>Does the loved glass, in passing by, <br>Reflect a graceful form and thin? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! that form, and brilliant fire, <br>Will never win beholder's love; <br>It may, indeed, make fools admire, <br>But ne'er the wise and good can move. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So grows the tulip, gay and bold,<br>The broadest sunshine its delight; <br>Like rubies, or like burnish'd gold, <br>It shows its petals, glossy bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who the gaudy floweret crops, <br>As if to court a sweet perfume! <br>Admired it blows, neglected drops, <br>And sinks unheeded to its doom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The virtues of the heart may move<br>Affections of a genial kind; <br>While beauty fails to stir our love, <br>And wins the eye, but not the mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Taylor">Ann Taylor</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=345013" data-title="The Gaudy Flower de Ann Taylor" data-description="WHY does my Anna toss her head, And look so scornfully around, As if she scarcely deign'd to tread Upon the daisy-dappled ground? Does fancied beauty fire thine eye, The brilliant tint, the satin skin? Does the loved glass, in passing by, Ref..."></div> </div> </div>

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