<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alms</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My heart is what it was before,<br>A house where people come and go;<br>But it is winter with your love,<br>The sashes are beset with snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I light the lamp and lay the cloth,<br>I blow the coals to blaze again;<br>But it is winter with your love,<br>The frost is thick upon the pane..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know a winter when it comes:<br>The leaves are listless on the boughs;<br>I watched your love a little while,<br>And brought my plants into the house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I water them and turn them south,<br>I snap the dead brown from the stem;<br>But it is winter with your love,<br>I only tend and water them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a time I stood and watched<br>The small, ill-natured sparrows' fray;<br>I loved the beggar that I fed,<br>I cared for what he had to say,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood and watched him out of sight:<br>Today I reach around the door<br>And set a bowl upon the step;<br>My heart is what it was before,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it is winter with your love;<br>I scatter crumbs upon the sill,<br>And close the window, &mdash;and the birds<br>May take or leave them, as they will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</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=374547" data-title="Alms de Edna St. Vincent Millay" data-description="My heart is what it was before, A house where people come and go; But it is winter with your love, The sashes are beset with snow. I light the lamp and lay the cloth, I blow the coals to blaze again; But it is winter with your love, The frost is ..."></div> </div> </div>

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