<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409451" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How beautiful it was, that one bright day <br>In the long week of rain! <br>Though all its splendor could not chase away <br>The omnipresent pain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lovely town was white with apple-blooms, <br>And the great elms o'erhead <br>Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms <br>Shot through with golden thread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the meadows, by the gray old manse, <br>The historic river flowed: <br>I was as one who wanders in a trance, <br>Unconscious of his road. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The faces of familiar friends seemed strange; <br>Their voices I could hear, <br>And yet the words they uttered seemed to change <br>Their meaning to my ear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the one face I looked for was not there, <br>The one low voice was mute; <br>Only an unseen presence filled the air, <br>And baffled my pursuit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I look back, and meadow, manse, and stream <br>Dimly my thought defines; <br>I only see--a dream within a dream-- <br>The hill-top hearsed with pines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only hear above his place of rest <br>Their tender undertone, <br>The infinite longings of a troubled breast, <br>The voice so like his own. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There in seclusion and remote from men <br>The wizard hand lies cold, <br>Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, <br>And left the tale half told. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, <br>And the lost clew regain? <br>The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower <br>Unfinished must remain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409451" data-title="Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="How beautiful it was, that one bright day In the long week of rain! Though all its splendor could not chase away The omnipresent pain. The lovely town was white with apple-blooms, And the great elms o'erhead Dark shadows wove on their aeria..."></div> </div> </div>

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