<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At the Stage Door</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kicking my heels in the street,<br>Here at the edge of the pavement I wait for you, sweet,<br>Here in the crowd, the blent noises, blurred lights, of the street.<br> <br>Under the archway sheer,<br>Sudden and black as a hole in the placarded wall,<br>Faces flicker and veer,<br>Wavering out of the darkness into the light,<br>Wavering back into night;<br>Under the archway, suddenly seen, the curls<br>And thin, bright faces of girls,<br>Roving eyes, and smiling lips, and the glance<br>Seeking, finding perchance,<br>Here at the edge of the pavement, there by the wall,<br>One face, out of them all.<br> <br>Steadily, face after face,<br>Cheeks with the blush of the paint yet lingering, eyes<br>Still with their circle of black ...<br>But hers, but hers?<br>Rose-leaf cheeks, and flower-soft lips, and the grace<br>Of the vanishing Spring come back,<br>And a child's heart blithe in the sudden and sweet surprise,<br>Subtly expectant, that stirs<br>In the smile of her heart to my heart, of her eyes to my eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Symons">Arthur Symons</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=348606" data-title="At the Stage Door de Arthur Symons" data-description="Kicking my heels in the street, Here at the edge of the pavement I wait for you, sweet, Here in the crowd, the blent noises, blurred lights, of the street. Under the archway sheer, Sudden and black as a hole in the placarded wall, Faces flicker ..."></div> </div> </div>

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