<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nurse Green</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night:<br>What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?<br>This throb in your bosom proclaims some affright<br>Disturbs your composure. Can innocence quake?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Why thus do you cling to my neck, and enfold me,<br>What fear unimparted your quiet devours?'<br>'O mother, there's reason-for Susan has told me,<br>A dead body lies in the room next to ours.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I know it; and, but for forgetfulness, dear,<br>I meant you the coffin this day should have seen,<br>And read the inscription, and told me the year<br>And day of the death of your poor old Nurse Green.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'O not for the wealth of the world would I enter<br>A chamber wherein a dead body lay hid,<br>Lest somebody bolder than I am should venture<br>To go near the coffin and lift up the lid.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'And should they do so and the coffin uncover,<br>The corpse underneath it would be no ill sight;<br>This frame, when its animal functions are over,<br>Has nothing of horror the living to fright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To start at the dead is preposterous error,<br>To shrink from a foe that can never contest;<br>Shall that which is motionless move thee to terror;<br>Or thou become restless, 'cause they are at rest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To think harm of her our good feelings forbid us<br>By whom when a babe you were dandled and fed;<br>Who living so many good offices did us,<br>I ne'er can persuade me would hurt us when dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But if no endeavour your terrors can smother,<br>If vainly against apprehension you strive,<br>Come, bury your fears in the arms of your mother;<br>My darling, cling close to me, I am alive.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355197" data-title="Nurse Green de Charles Lamb" data-description="'Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night: What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake? This throb in your bosom proclaims some affright Disturbs your composure. Can innocence quake? 'Why thus do you cling to my neck, and enfo..."></div> </div> </div>

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