<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet to Hope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, ever skilled to wear the form we love!<br>To bid the shapes of fear and grief depart;<br>Come, gentle Hope! with one gay smile remove<br>The lasting sadness of an aching heart.<br>Thy voice, benign Enchantress! let me hear;<br>Say that for me some pleasures yet shall bloom,--<br>That Fancy's radiance, Friendship's precious tear,<br>Shall soften, or shall chase, misfortune's gloom.<br>But come not glowing in the dazzling ray,<br>Which once with dear illusions charm'd my eye,--<br>O! strew no more, sweet flatterer! on my way<br>The flowers I fondly thought too bright to die;<br>Visions less fair will soothe my pensive breast,<br>That asks not happiness, but longs for rest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</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=407955" data-title="Sonnet to Hope de Helen Maria Williams" data-description="O, ever skilled to wear the form we love! To bid the shapes of fear and grief depart; Come, gentle Hope! with one gay smile remove The lasting sadness of an aching heart. Thy voice, benign Enchantress! let me hear; Say that for me some pleasures y..."></div> </div> </div>

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