<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381435" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The White Lights</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(BROADWAY, 1906)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When in from Delos came the gold <br>That held the dream of Pericles, <br>When first Athenian ears were told <br>The tumult of Euripides, <br>When men met Aristophanes,<br>Who fledged them with immortal quills— <br>Here, where the time knew none of these, <br>There were some islands and some hills. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Rome went ravening to see <br>The sons of mothers end their days,<br>When Flaccus bade Leuconoë <br>To banish her chaldean ways, <br>When first the pearled, alembic phrase <br>Of Maro into music ran— <br>Here there was neither blame nor praise<br>For Rome, or for the Mantuan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Avon, like a faery floor, <br>Lay freighted, for the eyes of One, <br>With galleons laden long before <br>By moonlit wharves in Avalon—<br>Here, where the white lights have begun <br>To seethe a way for something fair, <br>No prophet knew, from what was done, <br>That there was triumph in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</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=381435" data-title="The White Lights de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="(BROADWAY, 1906) When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The tumult of Euripides, When men met Aristophanes, Who fledged them with immortal quills— Here, where the time knew non..."></div> </div> </div>

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