<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I STAND beside the waves,--the mournful waves,-- <br>Where thou didst stand in silence and in fear, <br>For thou wert train'd by custom's haughty slaves, <br>And love, from such as I, disdain'd to hear; <br>Yet, with the murmur of the echoing sea, <br>And the monotonous billows, rolling on, <br>Were mingled sounds of weeping,--for in thee <br>All nature was not harden'd into stone: <br>And from the shore there came a distant chime <br>From the old village-clock;--ah! since that day, <br>Like a dull passing-bell each stroke of time <br>Falls on my heart; and in the ocean spray <br>A voice of lamentation seems to dwell, <br>As in that bitter hour of agonised farewell!</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=353975" data-title="Sonnet XII de Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton" data-description="I STAND beside the waves,--the mournful waves,-- Where thou didst stand in silence and in fear, For thou wert train'd by custom's haughty slaves, And love, from such as I, disdain'd to hear; Yet, with the murmur of the echoing sea, And the mo..."></div> </div> </div>

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