<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353972" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet VIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TO MY BOOKS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SILENT companions of the lonely hour, <br>Friends, who can never alter or forsake, <br>Who for inconstant roving have no power, <br>And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take,-- <br>Let me return to YOU; this turmoil ending <br>Which worldly cares have in my spirit wrought, <br>And, o'er your old familiar pages bending, <br>Refresh my mind with many a tranquil thought: <br>Till, haply meeting there, from time to time, <br>Fancies, the audible echo of my own, <br>'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime <br>My native language spoke in friendly tome, <br>And with a sort of welcome I shall dwell <br>On these, my unripe musings, told so well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Caroline+Elizabeth+Sarah+Norton">Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton</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=353972" data-title="Sonnet VIII de Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton" data-description="TO MY BOOKS. SILENT companions of the lonely hour, Friends, who can never alter or forsake, Who for inconstant roving have no power, And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take,-- Let me return to YOU; this turmoil ending Which worldly cares..."></div> </div> </div>

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