<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390151" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vain Hope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,<br>Though late it be, though lily-time be past,<br>Though all the summer skies be overcast,<br>Haply I will go down to her, some day,<br>And cast my rests of life before her feet,<br>That she may have her will of me, being so sweet<br>And none gainsay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So might she look on me with pitying eyes,<br>And lay calm hands of healing on my head:<br>'_Because of thy long pains be comforted;<br>For I, even I, am Love: sad soul, arise!_'<br>So, for her graciousness, I might at last<br>Gaze on the very face of Love, and hold Him fast<br>In no disguise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haply, I said, she will take pity on me,<br>Though late I come, long after lily-time,<br>With burden of waste days and drifted rhyme:<br>Her kind, calm eyes, down drooping maidenly,<br>Shall change, grow soft: there yet is time, meseems,<br>I said, for solace; though I know these things are dreams<br>And may not be!</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=390151" data-title="Vain Hope de Ernest Christopher Dowson" data-description="Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say, Though late it be, though lily-time be past, Though all the summer skies be overcast, Haply I will go down to her, some day, And cast my rests of life before her feet, That she may have her will of me, bei..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black