<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396884" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Crown Of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O might I load my arms with thee, <br>Like that young lover of Romance <br>Who loved and gained so gloriously <br>The fair Princess of France! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because he dared to love so high, <br>He, bearing her dear weight, shall speed <br>To where the mountain touched on sky: <br>So the proud king decreed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unhalting he must bear her on, <br>Nor pause a space to gather breath, <br>And on the height she will be won; <br>And she was won in death! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Red the far summit flames with morn, <br>While in the plain a glistening Court <br>Surrounds the king who practised scorn <br>Through such a mask of sport. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She leans into his arms; she lets <br>Her lovely shape be clasped: he fares. <br>God speed him whole! The knights make bets: <br>The ladies lift soft prayers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O have you seen the deer at chase? <br>O have you seen the wounded kite? <br>So boundingly he runs the race, <br>So wavering grows his flight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- My lover! linger here, and slake <br>Thy thirst, or me thou wilt not win. <br>- See'st thou the tumbled heavens? they break! <br>They beckon us up and in. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Ah, hero-love! unloose thy hold: <br>O drop me like a cursed thing. <br>- See'st thou the crowded swards of gold? <br>They wave to us Rose and Ring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- O death-white mouth! O cast me down! <br>Thou diest? Then with thee I die. <br>- See'st thou the angels with their Crown? <br>We twain have reached the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396884" data-title="The Crown Of Love de George Meredith" data-description="O might I load my arms with thee, Like that young lover of Romance Who loved and gained so gloriously The fair Princess of France! Because he dared to love so high, He, bearing her dear weight, shall speed To where the mountain touched on s..."></div> </div> </div>

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