<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Looking East</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying <br>Over the sky so blue and cold? <br>Fair faint hopes, why are you lying <br>Over my heart like a white cloud's fold? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slender green leaves, why are you peeping <br>Out of the ground where the snow yet lies? <br>Toying west wind, why are you creeping <br>Like a child's breath across my eyes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope and terror by turns consuming, <br>Lover and friend put far from me,-- <br>What should I do with the bright spring, coming <br>Like an angel over the sea? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the cruel sea that parted <br>Me from mine own, and rolls between;-- <br>Out of the woful east, whence darted <br>Heaven's full quiver of vengeance keen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day teaches day, night whispers morning-- <br>'Hundreds are weeping their dead, while thou <br>Weeping thy living--Rise, be adorning <br>Thy brows, unwidowed, with smiles.'--But how? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, had he married me!--unto anguish, <br>Hardship, sickness, peril, and pain; <br>That on my breast his head might languish <br>In lonely jungle or scorching plain; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, had we stood on some rampart gory, <br>Till he--ere Horror behind us trod-- <br>Kissed me, and killed me--so, with his glory <br>My soul went happy and pure to God! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, nay, Heaven pardon me! me, sick-hearted, <br>Living this long, long life-in-death: <br>Many there are far wider parted <br>Who under one roof-tree breathe one breath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we that loved--whom one word half broken <br>Had drawn together close soul to soul <br>As lip to lip--and it was not spoken, <br>Nor may be while the world's ages roll. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit me down with my tears all frozen: <br>I drink my cup, be it gall or wine: <br>For I know, if he lives, I am his chosen-- <br>I know, if he dies, that he is mine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If love in its silence be greater, stronger <br>Than million promises, sighs, or tears-- <br>I will wait upon Him a little longer <br>Who holdeth the balance of our years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little white clouds, like angels flying, <br>Bring the spring with you across the sea-- <br>Loving or losing, living or dying, <br>Lord, remember, remember me!</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=368542" data-title="Looking East de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you lying Over my heart like a white cloud's fold? Slender green leaves, why are you peeping Out of the ground where the snow yet lies? Toying ..."></div> </div> </div>

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