<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Under The Sheet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a terrible night! Does the Night, I wonder-<br>The Night, with her black veil down to her feet<br>Like an ordained nun, know what lies under<br>That awful, motionless, snow-white sheet?<br>The winds seem crazed, and, wildly howling,<br>Over the sad earth blindly go.<br>Do they and the dark clouds over them scowling,<br>Do they dream or know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Why, here in the room, not a week or over-<br>Tho' it must be a week, not more than one-<br>(I cannot reckon of late or discover<br>When one day is ended or one begun),<br>But here in this room we were laughing lightly,<br>And glad was the measure our two hearts beat;<br>And the royal face that was smiling so brightly<br>Lies under that sheet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I know not why-it is strange and fearful,<br>But I am afraid of her, lying there;<br>She who was always so gay and cheerful,<br>Lying so still with that stony stare:<br>She who was so like some grand sultana,<br>Fond of color and glow and heat,<br>To lie there clothed in that awful manner<br>In a stark white sheet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She who was made out of summer blisses,<br>Tropical, beautiful, gracious, fair,<br>To lie and stare at my fondest kisses-<br>God! no wonder it whitens my hair.<br>Shriek, oh, wind! for the world is lonely;<br>Trail cloud-veil to the nun Night's feet.<br>For all that I prized in life is only<br>A shape and a sheet.</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=384751" data-title="Under The Sheet de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="What a terrible night! Does the Night, I wonder- The Night, with her black veil down to her feet Like an ordained nun, know what lies under That awful, motionless, snow-white sheet? The winds seem crazed, and, wildly howling, Over the sad earth bl..."></div> </div> </div>

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