<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390092" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ad Manus Puellae</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was always a lover of ladies' hands!<br>Or ever mine heart came here to tryst,<br>For the sake of your carved white hands' commands;<br>The tapering fingers, the dainty wrist;<br>The hands of a girl were what I kissed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember an hand like a _fleur-de-lys_<br>When it slid from its silken sheath, her glove;<br>With its odours passing ambergris:<br>And that was the empty husk of a love.<br>Oh, how shall I kiss your hands enough?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are pale with the pallor of ivories;<br>But they blush to the tips like a curled sea-shell:<br>What treasure, in kingly treasuries,<br>Of gold, and spice for the thurible,<br>Is sweet as her hands to hoard and tell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not the way from your finger-tips,<br>Nor how I shall gain the higher lands,<br>The citadel of your sacred lips:<br>I am captive still of my pleasant bands,<br>The hands of a girl, and most your hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernest+Christopher+Dowson">Ernest Christopher Dowson</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=390092" data-title="Ad Manus Puellae de Ernest Christopher Dowson" data-description="I was always a lover of ladies' hands! Or ever mine heart came here to tryst, For the sake of your carved white hands' commands; The tapering fingers, the dainty wrist; The hands of a girl were what I kissed. I remember an hand like a _fleur-de-l..."></div> </div> </div>

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