<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409533" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maidenhood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes,<br>In whose orbs a shadow lies<br>Like the dusk in evening skies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou whose locks outshine the sun,<br>Golden tresses, wreathed in one,<br>As the braided streamlets run!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Standing, with reluctant feet,<br>Where the brook and river meet,<br>Womanhood and childhood fleet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gazing, with a timid glance,<br>On the brooklet's swift advance,<br>On the river's broad expanse!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep and still, that gliding stream<br>Beautiful to thee must seem,<br>As the river of a dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then why pause with indecision,<br>When bright angels in thy vision<br>Beckon thee to fields Elysian?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seest thou shadows sailing by,<br>As the dove, with startled eye,<br>Sees the falcon's shadow fly?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hearest thou voices on the shore,<br>That our ears perceive no more,<br>Deafened by the cataract's roar?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, thou child of many prayers!<br>Life hath quickeands,--Life hath snares<br>Care and age come unawares!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the swell of some sweet tune,<br>Morning rises into noon,<br>May glides onward into June.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Childhood is the bough, where slumbered<br>Birds and blossoms many-numbered;--<br>Age, that bough with snows encumbered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gather, then, each flower that grows,<br>When the young heart overflows,<br>To embalm that tent of snows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bear a lily in thy hand;<br>Gates of brass cannot withstand<br>One touch of that magic wand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth,<br>In thy heart the dew of youth,<br>On thy lips the smile of truth1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, that dew, like balm, shall steal<br>Into wounds that cannot heal,<br>Even as sleep our eyes doth seal;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that smile, like sunshine, dart<br>Into many a sunless heart,<br>For a smile of God thou art.</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=409533" data-title="Maidenhood de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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