<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354149" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Imprisoned</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIGHTLY she lifts the large, pure, luminous shell,<br>Poises it in her strong and shapely hand.<br>“Listen,” she says, “it has a tale to tell,<br>Spoken in language you may understand.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smiling, she holds it at my dreaming ear:<br>The old, delicious murmur of the sea<br>Steals like enchantment through me, and I hear<br>Voices like echoes of eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She stirs it softly. Lo, another speech!<br>In one of its dim chambers, shut from sight,<br>Is sealed the water that has kissed the beach<br>Where the far Indian Ocean leaps in light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those laughing ripples, hidden evermore<br>In utter darkness, plaintively repeat<br>Their lapsing on the glowing tropic shore<br>In melancholy whispers low and sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O prisoned wave that may not see the sun!<br>O voice that never may he comforted!<br>You cannot break the web that fate has spun;<br>Out of your world are light and gladness fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The red dawn nevermore shall tremble far<br>Across the leagues of radiant brine to you<br>You shall not sing to greet the evening star,<br>Nor dance exulting under heaven’s clear blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inexorably woven is the weft<br>That shrouds from you all joy but memory;<br>Only this tender, low lament is left<br>Of all the sumptuous splendor of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Celia+Thaxter">Celia Thaxter</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=354149" data-title="Imprisoned de Celia Thaxter" data-description="LIGHTLY she lifts the large, pure, luminous shell, Poises it in her strong and shapely hand. “Listen,” she says, “it has a tale to tell, Spoken in language you may understand.” Smiling, she holds it at my dreaming ear: The old, delicious ..."></div> </div> </div>

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