<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355472" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Haley,</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On receiving some elegant lines from him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">FOR me the Muse a simple band design'd<br>Of 'idle' flowers that bloom the woods among,<br>Which, with the cypress and the willow join'd,<br>A garland form'd as artless as my song.<br>And little dared I hope its transient hours<br>So long would last; composed of buds so brief;<br>Till Hayley's hand among the vagrant flowers,<br>Threw from his verdant crown a deathless leaf.<br>For high in Fame's bright fane has Judgment placed<br>The laurel wreath Serena's poet won,<br>Which, woven with myrtles by the hands of Taste,<br>The Muse decreed for this her favourite son.<br>And those immortal leaves his temples shade,<br>Whose fair, eternal verdure--shall not fade!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Smith">Charlotte Smith</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=355472" data-title="Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Haley, de Charlotte Smith" data-description="On receiving some elegant lines from him. FOR me the Muse a simple band design'd Of 'idle' flowers that bloom the woods among, Which, with the cypress and the willow join'd, A garland form'd as artless as my song. And little dared I hope its tra..."></div> </div> </div>

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