<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOU! whose name too often is profaned;<br>Whose charms celestial, few have hearts to feel;<br>Unknown to Folly--and by Pride disdain'd!<br>--To thy soft solace may my sorrows steal!<br>Like the fair moon, thy mild and genuine ray<br>Through life's long evening shall unclouded last;<br>While pleasure's frail attachments fleet away,<br>As fades the rainbow from the northern blast!<br>'Tis thine, O Nymph! with 'balmy hands to bind'<br>The wounds inflicted in misfortune's storm,<br>And blunt severe affliction's sharpest dart!<br>--'Tis thy pure spirit warms my Anna's mind,<br>Beams through the pensive softness of her form,<br>And holds its altar--on her spotless heart!</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=355495" data-title="Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship de Charlotte Smith" data-description="THOU! whose name too often is profaned; Whose charms celestial, few have hearts to feel; Unknown to Folly--and by Pride disdain'd! --To thy soft solace may my sorrows steal! Like the fair moon, thy mild and genuine ray Through life's long evening ..."></div> </div> </div>

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