<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XV. From Petrarch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHERE the green leaves exclude the summer beam,<br>And softly bend as balmy breezes blow,<br>And where, with liquid lapse, the lucid stream<br>Across the fretted rock is heard to flow,<br>Pensive I lay: when she whom Earth conceals,<br>As if still living, to my eyes appears,<br>And pitying Heaven her angel form reveals,<br>To say--'Unhappy Petrarch, dry your tears:<br>'Ah! why, sad lover! thus before your time,<br>In grief and sadness should your life decay,<br>And like a blighted flower, your manly prime<br>In vain and hopeless sorrow fade away?<br>Ah! yield not thus to culpable despair,<br>But raise thine eyes to Heaven--and think I wait thee there.'</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=355483" data-title="Sonnet XV. From Petrarch de Charlotte Smith" data-description="WHERE the green leaves exclude the summer beam, And softly bend as balmy breezes blow, And where, with liquid lapse, the lucid stream Across the fretted rock is heard to flow, Pensive I lay: when she whom Earth conceals, As if still living, to my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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