<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352750" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, I shall swear by you, my verse,<br>I shall wheeze out, before I swoon:<br>You're not a tenor's shape and voice,<br>You're summer travelling third class,<br>You are a suburb, not a tune.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You're a street as close as May,<br>You're a battlefield at night,<br>Where clouds groan loudly in dismay<br>And scatter, when dismissed, in fright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, splitting in the railway's lace-<br>That's outskirts, not refrain and home-<br>They crawl back to their native place<br>Without a song, as if struck dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shower's offshoots stick in clusters<br>Till break of day, and all the time<br>They scribble on the roofs acrostics<br>And bubble up rhyme after rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All poetry is what you make it.<br>And even when the truism's not worth<br>The rhyme, the flow of verse is scared.<br>The notebook's open-so flow forth!</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=352750" data-title="Poetry de Boris Pasternak" data-description="Yes, I shall swear by you, my verse, I shall wheeze out, before I swoon: You're not a tenor's shape and voice, You're summer travelling third class, You are a suburb, not a tune. You're a street as close as May, You're a battlefield at night, Whe..."></div> </div> </div>

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