<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371103" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: A Poet’s Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, how some poets have suffered in life! <br>In trying to eke their just livelihood; <br>To most, their most intimate friend was strife; <br>Orphaned and desperate right from childhood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, how they had run from pillar to post! <br>Doing odd jobs and working through the night; <br>Poverty remained forever a ghost; <br>For long years, denied were they of limelight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Much vexed, some gave in to many a vice, <br>To taste an iota of so-called joy! <br>Their poems great offered others advice; <br>Alas! they remained an ill-fated toy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could not the Maker protect them from strife? <br>Perhaps, they all await a better life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371103" data-title="Sonnet: A Poet’s Life de John Celes" data-description="Oh, how some poets have suffered in life! In trying to eke their just livelihood; To most, their most intimate friend was strife; Orphaned and desperate right from childhood. Oh, how they had run from pillar to post! Doing odd jobs and worki..."></div> </div> </div>

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