<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXVI: I Lived With Visions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lived with visions for my company <br>Instead of men and women, years ago, <br>And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know <br>A sweeter music than they played to me. <br>But soon their trailing purple was not free <br>Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow, <br>And I myself grew faint and blind below <br>Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come--to be, <br>Belovèd, what they seemed. Their shining fronts, <br>Their songs, their splendors (better, yet the same, <br>As river water hallowed into fonts), <br>Met in thee, and from out thee overcame <br>My soul with satisfaction of all wants: <br>Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</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=383917" data-title="Sonnet XXVI: I Lived With Visions de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this world's dust, their lutes di..."></div> </div> </div>

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