<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416539" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Test Of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now who shall say he loves me not.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wooed her first in an atmosphere<br>Of tender and low-breathed sighs;<br>But the pang of her laugh went cutting clear<br>To the soul of the enterprise;<br>'You beg so pert for the kiss you seek<br>It reminds me, John,' she said,<br>'Of a poodle pet that jumps to 'speak'<br>For a crumb or a crust of bread.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And flashing up, with the blush that flushed<br>His face like a tableau-light,<br>Came a bitter threat that his white lips hushed<br>To a chill, hoarse-voiced 'Good night!'<br>And again her laugh, like a knell that tolled,<br>And a wide-eyed mock surprise,--<br>'Why, John,' she said, 'you have taken cold<br>In the chill air of your sighs!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then he turned, and with teeth tight clenched,<br>He told her he hated her,--<br>That his love for her from his heart he wrenched<br>Like a corpse from a sepulcher.<br>And then she called him 'a ghoul all red<br>With the quintessence of crimes'--<br>'But I know you love me now,' she said,<br>And kissed him a hundred times.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416539" data-title="A Test Of Love de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="'Now who shall say he loves me not.' He wooed her first in an atmosphere Of tender and low-breathed sighs; But the pang of her laugh went cutting clear To the soul of the enterprise; 'You beg so pert for the kiss you seek It reminds me, John,' sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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