<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384519" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only a Simple Rhyme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where 'blisses' rhymed with 'kisses,' 'heart,' with 'dart:'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, reading it, new strength I seemed to borrow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To live on bravely and to do my part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little rhyme about a heart that's bleeding—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of lonely hours and sorrow's unrelief:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smiled at first; but there came with the reading</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sense of sweet companionship in grief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The selfishness of my own woe forsaking,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought about the singer of that song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some other breast felt this same weary aching;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another found the summer days too long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The few sad lines, my sorrow so expressing,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read, and on the singer, all unknown,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I breathed a fervent though a silent blessing,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And seemed to clasp his hand within my own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though fame pass him and he never know it,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though he never sings another strain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has performed the mission of the poet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In helping some sad heart to bear its pain.</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=384519" data-title="Only a Simple Rhyme de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow, Where 'blisses' rhymed with 'kisses,' 'heart,' with 'dart:' Yet, reading it, new strength I seemed to borrow, To live on bravely and to do my part. A little rhyme about a heart that's bleeding— Of lon..."></div> </div> </div>

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