<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416360" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Madam, the flower that I received from you, <br>Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue: <br>As flowers deprived of the genial day, <br>Its sprightly bloom did wither and decay; <br>Dear, fading flower, I know full well, said I, <br>The reason why you shed your sweets and die; <br>You want the influence of her enlivening eye. <br>Your case is mine -- Absence, that plague of love! <br>With heavy pace makes every minute move: <br>It of my being is an empty blank, <br>And hinders me myself with men to rank; <br>Your cheering presence quickeneth me again, <br>And new-sprung life exults in every vein.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</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=416360" data-title="Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress de James Thomson" data-description="Madam, the flower that I received from you, Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue: As flowers deprived of the genial day, Its sprightly bloom did wither and decay; Dear, fading flower, I know full well, said I, The reason why you shed your..."></div> </div> </div>

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