<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love and Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. <br> AS some faint wisp of fragrance, floating wide— <br> A pennant-perfume on the evening air— <br> From a walled garden, flower-filled and fair, <br> To drape a sudden beauty long denied <br> Upon life's highway desolate and dried— <br> So come you to me, as I, unaware, <br> Bend my strict eyes upon my pathway bare; <br> But at your presence straight I turn aside, <br> And passing in the garden see uncurled <br> The heart of hidden beauty in the world, <br> And love as life's one blossom is revealed. <br> My backward glance your floating tresses blind, <br> About my struggling hopes your white arms wind, <br> And I have yielded—but how sweet to yield! <br> <br> II. <br> Yet, in the prison of the garden bound, <br> The sluggish perfumes o'er my spirit fall, <br> And I lie languid in their sweetness' thrall, <br> Beneath the fragrance of much beauty drowned: <br> When through the fountain's murmur—lo, a sound <br> Insistent and reproachful! O'er the wall <br> Drops a faint echo of the Earth's deep call, <br> And I leap upright from the rose-strewn ground. <br> Outside the bracing wind sings, clean and chill; <br> Outside are tasks to do, blows to be struck; <br> And I must toil the dreary highway till <br> It broadens to the fields of death. Yet, ere <br> I leave for aye your perfumed close, I pluck <br> A shrivelled blossom that I kiss and wear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Henry+Adams">Arthur Henry Adams</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=348474" data-title="Love and Life de Arthur Henry Adams" data-description="I. AS some faint wisp of fragrance, floating wide— A pennant-perfume on the evening air— From a walled garden, flower-filled and fair, To drape a sudden beauty long denied Upon life's highway desolate and dried— So come you to me..."></div> </div> </div>

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