<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Inspiration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy, <br> Is inspiration, eager to pursue, <br>But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy, <br> Who gives herself to him who best doth woo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once she may smile, or thrice, thy soul to fire, <br> In passing by, but when she turns her face, <br>Thou must persist and seek her with desire, <br> If thou wouldst win the favor of her grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if, like some winged bird she cleaves the air, <br> And leaves thee spent and stricken on the earth, <br>Still must thou strive to follow even there, <br> That she may know thy valor and thy worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shall she come unveiling all her charms, <br> Giving thee joy for pain, and smiles for tears; <br>Then shalt thou clasp her with possessing arms, <br> The while she murmurs music in thine ears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ere her kiss has faded from thy cheek, <br> She shall flee from thee over hill and glade, <br>So must thou seek and ever seek and seek<br> For each new conquest of this phantom maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384444" data-title="Inspiration de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy, Is inspiration, eager to pursue, But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy, Who gives herself to him who best doth woo. Once she may smile, or thrice, thy soul to fire, In passing by, but when she tur..."></div> </div> </div>

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