<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXXVII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,<br>Of all that strong divineness which I know<br>For thine and thee, an image only so<br>Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.<br>It is that distant years which did not take<br>Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,<br>Have forced my swimming brain to undergo<br>Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake<br>Thy purity of likeness and distort<br>Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit:<br>As if a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port,<br>His guardian sea-god to commemorate,<br>Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort<br>And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.</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=383937" data-title="Sonnet XXXVII de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, an image only so Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break. It is that distant years which did not take Thy sovranty, recoiling with ..."></div> </div> </div>

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