<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358141" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flame-Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much have I forgotten in ten years,<br>So much in ten brief years! I have forgot<br>What time the purple apples come to juice,<br>And what month brings the shy forget-me-not.<br>I have forgot the special, startling season<br>Of the pimento's flowering and fruiting;<br>What time of year the ground doves brown the fields<br>And fill the noonday with their curious fluting.<br>I have forgotten much, but still remember<br>The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December. <br>I still recall the honey-fever grass,<br>But cannot recollect the high days when<br>We rooted them out of the ping-wing path<br>To stop the mad bees in the rabbit pen.<br>I often try to think in what sweet month<br>The languid painted ladies used to dapple<br>The yellow by-road mazing from the main,<br>Sweet with the golden threads of the rose-apple.<br>I have forgotten--strange--but quite remember<br>The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What weeks, what months, what time of the mild year<br>We cheated school to have our fling at tops?<br>What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy<br>Feasting upon blackberries in the copse?<br>Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days,<br>Even the sacred moments when we played,<br>All innocent of passion, uncorrupt,<br>At noon and evening in the flame-heart's shade.<br>We were so happy, happy, I remember,<br>Beneath the poinsettia's red in warm December.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claude+McKay">Claude McKay</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=358141" data-title="Flame-Heart de Claude McKay" data-description="So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice, And what month brings the shy forget-me-not. I have forgot the special, startling season Of the pimento's flowering and fru..."></div> </div> </div>

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