<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=403187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Temple de la Douleur</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My soul has suffered breaking on the wheel,<br>Flogging with lead, and felt the twinging ache<br>Of barbéd hooks and jagged points of steel,<br>Peine forte et dure, slow burning at the stake,<br>Blinding and branding, stripping on the rack,<br>The canque and kourbash and the torquéd screw,<br>The boot and branks, red scourging on the back,<br>The gallows and the gibbet. All for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These tortures are as nothing to the pain<br>That I have suffered when you gaze at me<br>With cold disdainful eyes. You do not deign<br>To smile or talk or even set me free-<br>Yet once you let me hold your perfumed hand<br>And danced with me a stately saraband.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harry+Crosby">Harry Crosby</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=403187" data-title="Temple de la Douleur de Harry Crosby" data-description="My soul has suffered breaking on the wheel, Flogging with lead, and felt the twinging ache Of barbéd hooks and jagged points of steel, Peine forte et dure, slow burning at the stake, Blinding and branding, stripping on the rack, The canque and ko..."></div> </div> </div>

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