<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374538" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Phyllis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Phyllis! why should we delay <br>Pleasures shorter than the day? <br>Can we (which we never can) <br>Stretch our lives beyond their span, <br>Beauty like a shadow flies, <br>And our youth before us dies. <br>Or, would youth and beauty stay, <br>Love has wings, and will away. <br>Love has swifter wings than Time; <br>Change in love to heaven doth climb. <br>Gods, that never change their state, <br>Vary oft their love and hate. <br>Phyllis! to this truth we owe <br>All the love betwixt us two. <br>Let not you and I inquire <br>What has been our past desire; <br>On what shepherds you have smiled, <br>Or what nymphs I have beguiled; <br>Leave it to the planets too, <br>What we shall hereafter do; <br>For the joys we now may prove, <br>Take advice of present love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edmund+Waller">Edmund Waller</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=374538" data-title="To Phyllis de Edmund Waller" data-description="Phyllis! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day? Can we (which we never can) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or, would youth and beauty stay, Love has wings, and wil..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black