<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sloth (I) & (II)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sloth (I) <br>Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent: <br>Too many a Sybil girl you lure to make <br>The Great Refusal for a fireside sake: <br>And glamoured poet many a look has sent <br>Into those eyeballs bear-brown, somnolent, <br>Nor dreamed that devils in each muddy lake <br>Were sucking his devotion in to slake <br>The furrowed belly of your fanged content! <br>Religion's bane and Freedom's subtlest foe! <br>Behold the poppied freight your barges bring <br>The dim-lit souls that crave the prophet's gleam, <br>Or fettered people's writhing 'neath their woe-- <br>Gossamer clips and thriftless harvesting <br>Of phantom flocks and shadowy tilth of dream! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sloth (II) <br>My dreams dissolve the day's illusive net: <br>While crested Action's billows blinding beat, <br>Omniscient Eyes in troughs of Faith I meet: <br>I wait with ancient stars until they set <br>Lest forward progress should their runes forget: <br>I am the rest that makes the bar complete: <br>And, in the shackled body of Defeat, <br>The womb of Baby Triumph living yet! <br>I am the blende of sleeping radiance: <br>The Siding where belated Industry <br>Draws from a Silent Tank tomorrow's zest: <br>Prophetic Art's preparatory Trance: <br>Dilating Force's Sabbath systole: <br>The Night of Brahm when worn Creators rest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bernard+O%27Dowd">Bernard O'Dowd</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=350903" data-title="Sloth (I) & (II) de Bernard O'Dowd" data-description="Sloth (I) Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent: Too many a Sybil girl you lure to make The Great Refusal for a fireside sake: And glamoured poet many a look has sent Into those eyeballs bear-brown, somnolent, Nor dreamed that devils in ea..."></div> </div> </div>

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