<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364108" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Malade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window<br>The tassel of the blind swings gently, tapping the pane, <br>As a little wind comes in. <br>The room is the hollow rind of a fruit, a gourd<br>Scooped out and dry, where a spider,<br>Folded in its legs as in a bed, <br>Lies on the dust, watching where is nothing to see but twilight and walls.<br> <br>And if the day outside were mine! What is the day <br>But a grey cave, with great grey spider-cloths hanging <br>Low from the roof, and the wet dust falling softly from them<br>Over the wet dark rocks, the houses, and over <br>The spiders with white faces, that scuttle on the floor of the cave!<br>I am choking with creeping, grey confinedness. <br> <br>But somewhere birds, beside a lake of light, spread wings<br>Larger than the largest fans, and rise in a stream upwards<br>And upwards on the sunlight that rains invisible, <br>So that the birds are like one wafted feather, <br>Small and ecstatic suspended over a vast spread country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Herbert+Lawrence">David Herbert Lawrence</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=364108" data-title="Malade de David Herbert Lawrence" data-description="The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window The tassel of the blind swings gently, tapping the pane, As a little wind comes in. The room is the hollow rind of a fruit, a gourd Scooped out and dry, where a spider, Folded in i..."></div> </div> </div>

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