<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Way Of A Maid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lover whose soul shaken is<br>In some decuman billow of bliss,<br>Who feels his gradual-wading feet<br>Sink in some sudden hollow of sweet,<br>And 'mid love's us-ed converse comes<br>Sharp on a mood which all joy sums--<br>An instant's fine compendium of<br>The liberal-leav-ed writ of love;<br>His abashed pulses beating thick<br>At the exigent joy and quick,<br>Is dumbed, by aiming utterance great<br>Up to the miracle of his fate.<br>The wise girl, such Icarian fall<br>Saved by her confidence that she's small,--<br>As what no kindred word will fit<br>Is uttered best by opposite,<br>Love in the tongue of hate exprest,<br>And deepest anguish in a jest,--<br>Feeling the infinite must be<br>Best said by triviality,<br>Speaks, where expression bates its wings,<br>Just happy, alien, little things;<br>What of all words is in excess<br>Implies in a sweet nothingness,<br>With dailiest babble shows her sense<br>That full speech were full impotence;<br>And while she feels the heavens lie bare,<br>She only talks about her hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Thompson">Francis Thompson</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=392048" data-title="The Way Of A Maid de Francis Thompson" data-description="The lover whose soul shaken is In some decuman billow of bliss, Who feels his gradual-wading feet Sink in some sudden hollow of sweet, And 'mid love's us-ed converse comes Sharp on a mood which all joy sums-- An instant's fine compendium of The li..."></div> </div> </div>

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