<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines:</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stooped from star-bright regions, where<br>Thou canst not enter even in prayer;<br>And thought to light thy heart and hearth<br>With all the poesy of earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, foolish hope! those mystic gleams<br>To thee were unsubstantial dreams;<br>The paltry world had made thee blind,<br>And shut thy heart and dulled thy mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was a vassal at thy feet,<br>And cringed more meanly than was meet,<br>And since I dared not to be free,<br>Was scouted as a slave should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gave thee all -- my truth, my trust --<br>I bowed my spirit in the dust,<br>I put a crown upon thy brow,<br>And am its proper victim now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</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=409078" data-title="Lines: de Henry Timrod" data-description="I stooped from star-bright regions, where Thou canst not enter even in prayer; And thought to light thy heart and hearth With all the poesy of earth. Oh, foolish hope! those mystic gleams To thee were unsubstantial dreams; The paltry world had ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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