<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet To The Curlew</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOOTH'D by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore,<br>His dun-grey plumage floating to the gale,<br>The Curlew blends his melancholy wail<br>With those hoarse sounds the rushing waters pour.<br>Like thee, congenial bird! my steps explore<br>The bleak lone sea-beach, or the rocky dale,--<br>And shun the orange bower, the myrtle vale,<br>Whose gay luxuriance suits my soul no more.<br>I love the ocean's broad expanse, when drest<br>In limpid clearness, or when tempests blow:<br>When the smooth currents on its placid breast<br>Flow calm, as my past moments us'd to flow;<br>Or when its troubled waves refuse to rest,<br>And seem the symbol of my present woe.</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=407962" data-title="Sonnet To The Curlew de Helen Maria Williams" data-description="SOOTH'D by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore, His dun-grey plumage floating to the gale, The Curlew blends his melancholy wail With those hoarse sounds the rushing waters pour. Like thee, congenial bird! my steps explore The bleak lone sea-beach, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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