<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409118" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rosebuds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, in that dainty ivory shrine,<br>With those three pallid buds, I twine<br>And fold away a dream divine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night they lay upon a breast<br>Where Love hath made his fragrant nest,<br>And throned me as a life-long guest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near that chaste heart they seemed to me<br>Types of far fairer flowers to be --<br>The rosebuds of a human tree!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buds that shall bloom beside my hearth,<br>And there be held of richer worth<br>Than all the kingliest gems of earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah me! the pathos of the thought!<br>I had not deemed she wanted aught;<br>Yet what a tenderer charm it wrought!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not if she marked the flame<br>That lit my cheek, but not from shame,<br>When one sweet image dimly came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a murmur soft and low;<br>White folds of cambric, parted slow;<br>And little fingers played with snow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How far my fancy dared to stray,<br>A lover's reverence needs not say --<br>Enough -- the vision passed away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Passed in a mist of happy tears,<br>While something in my tranced ears<br>Hummed like the future in a seer's!</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=409118" data-title="The Rosebuds de Henry Timrod" data-description="Yes, in that dainty ivory shrine, With those three pallid buds, I twine And fold away a dream divine! One night they lay upon a breast Where Love hath made his fragrant nest, And throned me as a life-long guest. Near that chaste heart they seeme..."></div> </div> </div>

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