<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Obscure Night of the Soul</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon an obscure night,<br>Fevered with love in love's anxiety,<br>(O hapless-happy plight!)<br>I went, none seeing me,<br>Forth from my house where all things quiet be.<br> <br>By night, secure from sight,<br>And by the secret stair, disguisedly,<br>(O hapless-happy plight!)<br>By night, and privily,<br>Forth from my house where all things quiet be.<br> <br>Blest night of wandering,<br>In secret, where by none might I be spied,<br>Nor I see anything;<br>Without a light or guide,<br>Save that which in my heart burnt in my side.<br> <br>That light did lead me on,<br>More surely than the shining of noontide,<br>Where well I knew that one<br>Did for my coming bide;<br>Where he abode might none but he abide.<br> <br>O night that didst lead thus,<br>O night more lovely than the dawn of light,<br>O night that broughtest us,<br>Lover to lover's sight,<br>Lover with loved in marriage of delight!<br> <br>Upon my flowery breast,<br>Wholly for him, and save himself for none,<br>There did I give sweet rest<br>To my beloved one;<br>The fanning of the cedars breathed thereon.<br> <br>When the first moving air<br>Blew from the tower, and waved his locks aside.<br>His hand, with gentle care,<br>Did wound me in the side,<br>And in my body all my senses died.<br> <br>All things I then forgot,<br>My cheek on him who for my coming came;<br>All ceased, and I was not,<br>Leaving my cares and shame<br>Among the lilies, and forgetting them.</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=348688" data-title="The Obscure Night of the Soul de Arthur Symons" data-description="Upon an obscure night, Fevered with love in love's anxiety, (O hapless-happy plight!) I went, none seeing me, Forth from my house where all things quiet be. By night, secure from sight, And by the secret stair, disguisedly, (O hapless-happy plig..."></div> </div> </div>

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