<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Nightingale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O nightingale! how hast thou learnt <br>The note of the nested dove? <br>While under thy bower the fern hangs burnt <br>And no cloud hovers above! <br>Rich July has many a sky <br>With splendour dim, that thou mightst hymn, <br>And make rejoice with thy wondrous voice, <br>And the thrill of thy wild pervading tone! <br>But instead of to woo, thou hast learnt to coo: <br>Thy song is mute at the mellowing fruit, <br>And the dirge of the flowers is sung by the hours <br>In silence and twilight alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O nightingale! 'tis this, 'tis this <br>That makes thee mock the dove! <br>That thou hast past thy marriage bliss, <br>To know a parent's love. <br>The waves of fern may fade and burn, <br>The grasses may fall, the flowers and all, <br>And the pine-smells o'er the oak dells <br>Float on their drowsy and odorous wings, <br>But thou wilt do nothing but coo, <br>Brimming the nest with thy brooding breast, <br>'Midst that young throng of future song, <br>Round whom the Future sings!</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=396958" data-title="To A Nightingale de George Meredith" data-description="O nightingale! how hast thou learnt The note of the nested dove? While under thy bower the fern hangs burnt And no cloud hovers above! Rich July has many a sky With splendour dim, that thou mightst hymn, And make rejoice with thy wondrous vo..."></div> </div> </div>

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