<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Pause Of Thought</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked for that which is not, nor can be,<br>And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:<br>But years must pass before a hope of youth<br>Is resigned utterly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched and waited with a steadfast will:<br>And though the object seemed to flee away<br>That I so longed for, ever day by day<br>I watched and waited still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;<br>My expectation wearies and shall cease; <br>I will resign it now and be at peace:<br>Yet never gave it o'er.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I said: It is an empty name<br>I long for; to a name why should I give<br>The peace of all the days I have to live?—<br>Yet gave it all the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit<br>For healthy joy and salutary pain:<br>Thou knowest the chase useless, and again<br>Turnest to follow it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</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=355943" data-title="A Pause Of Thought de Christina Georgina Rossetti" data-description="I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth: But years must pass before a hope of youth Is resigned utterly. I watched and waited with a steadfast will: And though the object seemed to flee away That ..."></div> </div> </div>

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