<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Farewell to Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHILST yet to prove<br>I thought there was some deity in love,<br> So did I reverence, and gave<br>Worship; as atheists at their dying hour<br>Call, what they cannot name, an unknown power,<br> As ignorantly did I crave.<br> Thus when<br>Things not yet known are coveted by men,<br> Our desires give them fashion, and so<br>As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But, from late fair,<br>His highness sitting in a golden chair,<br> Is not less cared for after three days<br>By children, than the thing which lovers so<br>Blindly admire, and with such worship woo;<br> Being had, enjoying it decays;<br> And thence,<br>What before pleased them all, takes but one sense,<br>And that so lamely, as it leaves behind<br>A kind of sorrowing dulness to the mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ah cannot we,<br>As well as cocks and lions, jocund be<br> After such pleasures, unless wise<br>Nature decreed—since each such act, they say,<br>Diminisheth the length of life a day—<br> This; as she would man should despise<br> The sport,<br>Because that other curse of being short,<br> And only for a minute made to be<br>Eager, desires to raise posterity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Since so, my mind<br>Shall not desire what no man else can find;<br> I'll no more dote and run<br>To pursue things which had endamaged me;<br>And when I come where moving beauties be,<br> As men do when the summer's sun<br> Grows great,<br>Though I admire their greatness, shun their heat.<br> Each place can afford shadows; if all fail,<br>'Tis but applying worm-seed to the tail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</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=37281" data-title="Farewell to Love de John Donne" data-description="WHILST yet to prove/I thought there was some deity in love,/ So did I reverence, and gave/Worship; as atheists at their dying hour/Call, what they cannot name, an unknown power,/ As ignorantly did I crave./ Thus when/Things not yet known are cov..."></div> </div> </div>

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