<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384009" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Summer’s Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the sagging wharf<br>few ships could come.<br>The population numbered<br>two giants, an idiot, a dwarf,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a gentle storekeeper<br>asleep behind his counter,<br>and our kind landlady—<br>the dwarf was her dressmaker.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The idiot could be beguiled<br>by picking blackberries,<br>but then threw them away.<br>The shrunken seamstress smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the sea, lying<br>blue as a mackerel,<br>our boarding house was streaked<br>as though it had been crying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Extraordinary geraniums<br>crowded the front windows,<br>the floors glittered with<br>assorted linoleums.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every night we listened<br>for a horned owl.<br>In the horned lamp flame,<br>the wallpaper glistened.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The giant with the stammer<br>was the landlady’s son,<br>grumbling on the stairs<br>over an old grammar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was morose,<br>but she was cheerful.<br>The bedroom was cold,<br>the feather bed close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were awakened in the dark by<br>the somnambulist brook<br>nearing the sea,<br>still dreaming audibly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384009" data-title="A Summer’s Dream de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="To the sagging wharf few ships could come. The population numbered two giants, an idiot, a dwarf, a gentle storekeeper asleep behind his counter, and our kind landlady— the dwarf was her dressmaker. The idiot could be beguiled by picking black..."></div> </div> </div>

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