<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns:<br>And as a girl sails balanced in the wind,<br>And now before and now again behind<br>Stoops as it swoops, with cheek that laughs and burns,—<br>So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns<br>No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd<br>With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,<br>And whom to-day the Spring no more concerns.<br>Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;<br>This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part<br>To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.<br>Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,<br>Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem<br>The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel 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=360698" data-title="Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns: And as a girl sails balanced in the wind, And now before and now again behind Stoops as it swoops, with cheek that laughs and burns,— So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answeri..."></div> </div> </div>

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