<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After the Interval</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">About three months ago, when first<br>Upon our open, unprotected<br>And freezing garden snowstorms burst<br>In sudden fury, I reflected</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That I would shut myself away<br>And in seclusion write a section<br>Of winter poems, day by day,<br>To supplement my spring collection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But nonsense piled up mountain-high,<br>Like snow-drifts hindering and stifling<br>And half the winter had gone by,<br>Against all hopes, in petty trifling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I understood, alas, too late<br>Why winter-while the snow was falling,<br>Piercing the darkness with its flakes-<br>From outside at my house was calling;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And while with numb white-frozen lips<br>It whispered, urging me to hurry,<br>I sharpened pencils, played with clips,<br>Made feeble jokes and did not worry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While at my desk I dawdled on<br>By lamp-light on an early morning,<br>The winter had appeared and gone-<br>A wasted and unheeded warning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Boris+Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</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=352687" data-title="After the Interval de Boris Pasternak" data-description="About three months ago, when first Upon our open, unprotected And freezing garden snowstorms burst In sudden fury, I reflected That I would shut myself away And in seclusion write a section Of winter poems, day by day, To supplement my spring col..."></div> </div> </div>

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