<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408061" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Picture Gallery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With palette laden <br>She sat, as I passed her, <br>A dainty maiden <br>Before an Old Master. <br> <br>What mountain-top is <br>She bent upon? Ah, <br>She neatly copies <br>Murillo's Madonna. <br> <br>But rapt and brimming <br>The eyes' full chalice says <br>The heart builds dreaming <br>Its fairy-palaces. <br> <br>* * * <br> <br>The eighteenth year rolled <br>By, ere returning, <br>I greeted the dear old <br>Scenes with yearning. <br> <br>With palette laden <br>She sat, as I passed her, <br>A faded maiden <br>Before an Old Master. <br> <br>But what is she doing? <br>The same thing still--lo, <br>Hotly pursuing <br>That very Murillo! <br> <br>Her wrist never falters; <br>It keeps her, that poor wrist, <br>With panels for altars <br>And daubs for the tourist. <br> <br>And so she has painted <br>Through years unbrightened, <br>Till hopes have fainted <br>And hair has whitened. <br> <br>But rapt and brimming <br>The eyes' full chalice says <br>The heart builds dreaming <br>Its fairy-palaces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henrik+Johan+Ibsen">Henrik Johan Ibsen</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=408061" data-title="In the Picture Gallery de Henrik Johan Ibsen" data-description="With palette laden She sat, as I passed her, A dainty maiden Before an Old Master. What mountain-top is She bent upon? Ah, She neatly copies Murillo's Madonna. But rapt and brimming The eyes' full chalice says The heart builds dreami..."></div> </div> </div>

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