<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386640" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Afternoon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small, shapeless drifts of cloud<br>Sail slowly northward in the soft-hued sky,<br>With blur half-tints and rolling summits bright,<br>By the late sun caressed; slight hazes shroud<br>All things afar; shineth each leaf anigh<br>With its own warmth and light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'erblown by Southland airs,<br>The summer landscape basks in utter peace:<br>In lazy streams the lazy clouds are seen;<br>Low hills, broad meadows, and large, clear-cut squares<br>Of ripening corn-fields, rippled by the breeze,<br>With shifting shade and sheen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark! and you may not hear<br>A sound less soothing than the rustle cool<br>Of swaying leaves, the steady wiry drone<br>Of unseen crickets, sudden chirpings clear<br>Of happy birds, the tinkle of the pool,<br>Chafed by a single stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What vague, delicious dreams,<br>Born of this golden hour of afternoon,<br>And air balm-freighted, fill the soul with bliss,<br>Transpierced like yonder clouds with lustrous gleams,<br>Fantastic, brief as they, and, like them, spun<br>Of gilded nothingness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things are well with her.<br>'T is good to be alive, to see the light<br>That plays upon the grass, to feel (and sigh<br>With perfect pleasure) the mild breezes stir<br>Among the garden roses, red and white,<br>With whiffs of fragrancy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no troublous thought,<br>No painful memory, no grave regret,<br>To mar the sweet suggestions of the hour:<br>The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without,<br>Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget<br>The morning's transient shower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emma+Lazarus">Emma Lazarus</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=386640" data-title="Afternoon de Emma Lazarus" data-description="Small, shapeless drifts of cloud Sail slowly northward in the soft-hued sky, With blur half-tints and rolling summits bright, By the late sun caressed; slight hazes shroud All things afar; shineth each leaf anigh With its own warmth and light. O'..."></div> </div> </div>

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