<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368489" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sketch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Emelie, that fayrer was to seene<br>Than is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....<br>Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DOST thou thus love me, O thou beautiful? <br>So beautiful, that by thy side I seem <br>Like a great ducky cloud beside a star: <br>Yet thou creep'st o'er its edges, and it rests <br>On its lone path, the slow deep-hearted cloud-- <br>Then opes a rift and lets thee enter in; <br>And with thy beauty shining on its breast, <br>Feels no more its own blackness--thou art fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dost thou thus love me, O thou all beloved, <br>In whose large store the very meanest coin <br>Would out-buy my whole wealth? Yet here thou comest <br>Like a kind heiress from her purple and down <br>Uprising, who for pity cannot sleep, <br>But goes forth to the stranger at her gate-- <br>The beggared stranger at her beauteous gate-- <br>And clothes and feeds; scarce blest till she has blest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dost thou thus love me, O thou pure of heart, <br>Whose very looks are prayers? What couldst thou see <br>In this forsaken pool by the yew-wood's side, <br>To sit down at its bank, and dip thy hand, <br>Saying, 'it is so clear!'--And lo, erelong <br>Its blackness caught the shimmer of they wings, <br>Its slimes slid downward from thy stainless palm, <br>Its depths grew still that there thy form might rise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O beautiful! O well-beloved! O rich <br>In all that makes my need! I lay me down <br>I' the shadow of thy love, and feel no pain. <br>The cloud floats on, thee glittering on its breast, <br>The beggar wears thy purple as his own: <br>The noisome waves, made calm, creep to thy feet <br>Rejoicing that they yet can image thee, <br>And beyond thee, God's heaven, thick-sown with stars.</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=368489" data-title="A Sketch de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="'Emelie, that fayrer was to seene Than is the lilye on hys stalke grene..... Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.' DOST thou thus love me, O thou beautiful? So beautiful, that by thy side I seem Like a great ducky cloud beside a star: Yet thou cr..."></div> </div> </div>

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