<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Venetian Gondolier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here rest the weary oar! -- soft airs<br>Breathe out in the o'erarching sky;<br>And Night!-- sweet Night -- serenely wears<br>A smile of peace; her noon is nigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the tall fir in quiet stands,<br>And waves, embracing the chaste shores,<br>Move o'er sea-shells and bright sands,-<br>Is heard the sound of dipping oars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swift o'er the wave the light bark springs,<br>Love's midnight hour draws lingering near:<br>And list!-- his tuneful viol strings<br>The young Venetian Gondolier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! on the silver-mirrored deep,<br>On earth, and her embosomed lakes,<br>And where the silent rivers sweep,<br>From the thin cloud fair moonlight breaks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soft music breathes around, and dies<br>On the calm bosom of the sea;<br>Whilst in her cell the novice sighs<br>Her vespers to her rosary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At their dim altars bow fair forms,<br>In tender charity for those,<br>That, helpless left to life's rude storms,<br>Have never found this calm repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bell swings to its midnight chime,<br>Relieved against the deep blue sky!--<br>Haste!-- dip the oar again! -- 'tis time<br>To seek Genevra's balcony.</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=409804" data-title="The Venetian Gondolier de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Here rest the weary oar! -- soft airs Breathe out in the o'erarching sky; And Night!-- sweet Night -- serenely wears A smile of peace; her noon is nigh. Where the tall fir in quiet stands, And waves, embracing the chaste shores, Move o'er sea-she..."></div> </div> </div>

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