<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Wish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go to the forest-shade,<br>Seek thou the well-known glade,<br>Where, heavy with sweet dew, the violets lie,<br>Gleaming thro' moss-tufts deep,<br>Like dark eyes fill'd with sleep,<br>And bath'd in hues of summer's midnight sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bring me their buds, to shed<br>Around my dying bed, <br>A breath of May, and of the wood's repose;<br>For I in sooth depart,<br>With a reluctant heart,<br>That fain would linger where the bright sun glows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fain would I stay with thee–<br>Alas! this may not be;<br>Yet bring me still the gifts of happier hours!<br>Go where the fountain's breast<br>Catches in glassy rest<br>The dim green light that pours thro' laurel bowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know how softly bright,<br>Steep'd in that tender light,<br>The water-lilies tremble there ev'n now;<br>Go to the pure stream's edge,<br>And from its whisp'ring sedge,<br>Bring me those flowers to cool my fever'd brow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, as in Hope's young days,<br>Track thou the antique maze<br>Of the rich garden to its grassy mound;<br>There is a lone white rose,<br>Shedding, in sudden snows,<br>Its faint leaves o'er the emerald turf around. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well know'st thou that fair tree–<br>A murmur of the bee<br>Dwells ever in the honey'd lime above;<br>Bring me one pearly flower<br>Of all its clustering shower–<br>For on that spot we first reveal'd our love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gather one woodbine bough,<br>Then, from the lattice low<br>Of the bower'd cottage which I bade thee mark,<br>When by the hamlet last,<br>Thro' dim wood-lanes we pass'd,<br>While dews were glancing to the glowworm's spark. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haste! to my pillow bear<br>Those fragrant things and fair;<br>My hand no more may bind them up at eve,<br>Yet shall their odour soft<br>One bright dream round me waft<br>Of life, youth, summer,–all that I must leave! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And oh! if thou wouldst ask<br>Wherefore thy steps I task,<br>The grove, the stream, the hamlet-vale to trace;<br>'Tis that some thought of me,<br>When I am gone, may be<br>The spirit bound to each familiar place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bid mine image dwell,<br>(Oh! break not thou the spell!)<br>In the deep wood and by the fountain-side;<br>Thou must not, my belov'd!<br>Rove where we two have rov'd,<br>Forgetting her that in her spring-time died!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391622" data-title="The Last Wish de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="Go to the forest-shade, Seek thou the well-known glade, Where, heavy with sweet dew, the violets lie, Gleaming thro' moss-tufts deep, Like dark eyes fill'd with sleep, And bath'd in hues of summer's midnight sky. Bring me their buds, to shed Aro..."></div> </div> </div>

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