<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine <br>There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed <br>Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; <br>And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, <br>Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: <br>I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat, <br>Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay; <br>Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet; <br>But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, <br>When I awoke and found the dawn was gray: <br>I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, <br>Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, <br>Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; <br>But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, <br>Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: <br>I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, <br>But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, <br>Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine; <br>And I am desolate and sick of an old passion, <br>Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire: <br>I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.</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=390127" data-title="Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae de Ernest Christopher Dowson" data-description="Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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