<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before a Painting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine<br>What I beheld; nor by what laws of art<br>He had created life and love and heart<br>On canvas, from mere color, curve and line.<br>Silent I stood and made no move or sign;<br>Not with the crowd, but reverently apart;<br>Nor felt the power my rooted limbs to start,<br>But mutely gazed upon that face divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And over me the sense of beauty fell,<br>As music over a raptured listener to<br>The deep-voiced organ breathing out a hymn;<br>Or as on one who kneels, his beads to tell,<br>There falls the aureate glory filtered through<br>The windows in some old cathedral dim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Weldon+Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</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=416426" data-title="Before a Painting de James Weldon Johnson" data-description="I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine What I beheld; nor by what laws of art He had created life and love and heart On canvas, from mere color, curve and line. Silent I stood and made no move or sign; Not with the crowd, but reverently apa..."></div> </div> </div>

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