Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409231" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Black Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once, only once, I saw it clear, --<br>That Eden every human heart has dreamed<br>A hundred times, but always far away!<br>Ah, well do I remember how it seemed,<br>Through the still atmosphere<br>Of that enchanted day,<br>To lie wide open to my weary feet:<br>A little land of love and joy and rest,<br>With meadows of soft green,<br>Rosy with cyclamen, and sweet<br>With delicate breath of violets unseen, --<br>And, tranquil 'mid the bloom<br>As if it waited for a coming guest,<br>A little house of peace and joy and love<br>Was nested like a snow-white dove </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the rough mountain where I stood, <br>Homesick for happiness,<br>Only a narrow valley and a darkling wood <br>To cross, and then the long distress<br>Of solitude would be forever past, --<br>I should be home at last.<br>But not too soon! oh, let me linger here <br>And feed my eyes, hungry with sorrow, <br>On all this loveliness, so near,<br>And mine to-morrow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, from the wood, across the silvery blue,<br>A dark bird flew,<br>Silent, with sable wings.<br>Close in his wake another came, --<br>Fragments of midnight floating through<br>The sunset flame, --<br>Another and another, weaving rings<br>Of blackness on the primrose sky, --<br>Another, and another, look, a score,<br>A hundred, yes, a thousand rising heavily<br>From that accursed, dumb, and ancient wood, --<br>They boiled into the lucid air<br>Like smoke from some deep caldron of despair!<br>And more, and more, and ever more,<br>The numberless, ill-omened brood,<br>Flapping their ragged plumes,<br>Possessed the landscape and the evening light<br>With menaces and glooms.<br>Oh, dark, dark, dark they hovered o'er the place<br>Where once I saw the little house so white<br>Amid the flowers, covering every trace<br>Of beauty from my troubled sight, --<br>And suddenly it was night! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At break of day I crossed the wooded vale; <br>And while the morning made<br>A trembling light among the tree-tops pale, <br>I saw the sable birds on every limb, <br>Clinging together closely in the shade, <br>And croaking placidly their surly hymn. <br>But, oh, the little land of peace and love<br>That those night-loving wings had poised above, --<br>Where was it gone?<br>Lost, lost forevermore!<br>Only a cottage, dull and gray,<br>In the cold light of dawn,<br>With iron bars across the door:<br>Only a garden where the withering heads <br>Of flowers, presaging decay, <br>Hung over barren beds: <br>Only a desolate field that lay <br>Untilled beneath the desolate day, --<br>Where Eden seemed to bloom I found but these! <br>So, wondering, I passed along my way, <br>With anger in my heart, too deep for words, <br>Against that grove of evil-sheltering trees, <br>And the black magic of the croaking birds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Van+Dyke">Henry Van Dyke</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=409231" data-title="The Black Birds de Henry Van Dyke" data-description="I 

Once, only once, I saw it clear, --
That Eden every human heart has dreamed
A hundred times, but always far away!
Ah, well do I remember how it seemed,
Through the still atmosphere
Of that enchanted day,
To lie wide open to my weary feet:
A li..."></div>
</div>
</div>