<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life and Art</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not while the fever of the blood is strong, <br>The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less <br>With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless <br>The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. <br>Not then she bids his trembling lips express <br>The aching gladness, the voluptuous pain. <br>Life is his poem then; flesh, sense, and brain <br>One full-stringed lyre attuned to happiness. <br>But when the dream is done, the pulses fail, <br>The day's illusion, with the day's sun set, <br>He, lonely in the twilight, sees the pale <br>Divine Consoler, featured like Regret, <br>Enter and clasp his hand and kiss his brow. <br>Then his lips ope to sing--as mine do now.</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=386673" data-title="Life and Art de Emma Lazarus" data-description="Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not then she bids his trembling lips express The a..."></div> </div> </div>

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