<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Villanelle: The Psychological Hour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had over prepared the event,<br>that much was ominous.<br>With middle-ageing care<br>I had laid out just the right books.<br>I had almost turned down the pages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty is so rare a thing.<br>So few drink of my fountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much barren regret,<br>So many hours wasted!<br>And now I watch, from the window,<br>the rain, the wandering busses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Their little cosmos is shaken&quot; - <br>the air is alive with that fact.<br>In their parts of the city<br>they are played on by diverse forces.<br>How do I know?<br>Oh, I know well enough.<br>For them there is something afoot.<br>As for me;<br>I had over-prepared the event - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty is so rare a thing.<br>So few drink of my fountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two friends: a breath of the forest. . . <br>Friends? Are people less friends<br>because one has just, at last, found them?<br>Twice they promised to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Between the night and the morning?&quot;<br>Beauty would drink of my mind.<br>Youth would awhile forget<br>my youth is gone from me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Speak up! You have danced so stiffly?<br>Someone admired your works,<br>And said so frankly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Did you talk like a fool,<br>The first night?<br>The second evening?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But they promised again:<br>'To-morrow at tea-time'.&quot;)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now the third day is here - <br>no word from either;<br>No word from her nor him,<br>Only another man's note:<br>&quot;Dear Pound, I am leaving England.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</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=391348" data-title="Villanelle: The Psychological Hour de Ezra Pound" data-description="I had over prepared the event, that much was ominous. With middle-ageing care I had laid out just the right books. I had almost turned down the pages. Beauty is so rare a thing. So few drink of my fountain. So much barren regret, So many hours w..."></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