<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368487" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Rejected Lover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You 'never loved me,' Ada. These slow words <br>Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue <br>Out of your true and kindly woman-heart, <br>Fell, piercing into mine like very swords <br>The sharper for their kindness. Yet no wrong <br>Lies to your charge, nor cruelty, nor art,-- <br>Ev'n when you spoke, I saw the tender tear-drop start. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You 'never loved me.' No, you never knew, <br>You, with youth's morning fresh upon your soul, <br>What 't is to love: slow, drop by drop, to pour <br>Our life's whole essence, perfumed through and through <br>With all the best we have or can control <br>For the libation--cast it down before <br>Your feet--then lift the goblet, dry for evermore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall not die as foolish lovers do: <br>A man's heart beats beneath thid breast of mine, <br>The breast where--Curse on that fiend-whispering <br>'It might have been!'--Ada, I will be true <br>Unto myself--the self that so loved thine: <br>May all life's pain, like these few tears that spring <br>For me, glance off as rain-drops from my white dove's wing! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">May you live long, some good man's bosom flower, <br>And gather chldren round your matron knees: <br>So, when all this is past, and you and I <br>Remember each our youth-days as an hour <br>Of joy--or anguish, one, serene, at ease, <br>May come to meet the other's steadfast eye, <br>Thinking, 'He loved me well!' clasp hands, and so pass by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368487" data-title="A Rejected Lover de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="You 'never loved me,' Ada. These slow words Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue Out of your true and kindly woman-heart, Fell, piercing into mine like very swords The sharper for their kindness. Yet no wrong Lies to your charge, nor ..."></div> </div> </div>

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