<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Illileo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Illileo, the moonlight seemed lost across the vales--<br>The stars but strewed the azure as an armor's scattered scales;<br>The airs of night were quiet as the breath of silken sails,<br>And all your words were sweeter than the notes of nightingales.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Illileo Legardi, in the garden there alone,<br>With your figure carved of fervor, as the Psyche carved of stone,<br>There came to me no murmur of the fountain's undertone<br>So mystically, musically mellow as your own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You whispered low, Illileo-- so low the leaves were mute,<br>And the echoes faltered breathless in your voice's vain pursuit;<br>And there died the distant dalliance of the serenader's lute:<br>And I held you in my bosom as the husk may hold the fruit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Illileo, I listened. I believed you. In my bliss,<br>What were all the worlds above me since I found you thus in this--?<br>Let them reeling reach to win me-- even Heaven I would miss,<br>Grasping earthward--! I would cling here, though I clung by just a kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And blossoms should grow odorless-- and lilies all aghast--<br>And I said the stars should slacken in their paces through the vast,<br>Ere yet my loyalty should fail enduring to the last--.<br>So vowed I. It is written. It is changeless as the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IIlileo Legardi, in the shade your palace throws<br>Like a cowl about the singer at your gilded porticos,<br>A moan goes with the music that may vex the high repose<br>Of a heart that fades and crumbles as the crimson of a rose.</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=416649" data-title="Illileo de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Illileo, the moonlight seemed lost across the vales-- The stars but strewed the azure as an armor's scattered scales; The airs of night were quiet as the breath of silken sails, And all your words were sweeter than the notes of nightingales. Illi..."></div> </div> </div>

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