<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Private Theatricals</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A quite convincing axiom<br>Is, 'Life is like a play';<br>For, turning back its pages some<br>Few dog-eared years away,<br>I find where I<br>Committed my<br>Love-tale--with brackets where to sigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel an idle interest<br>To read again the page;<br>I enter, as a lover dressed,<br>At twenty years of age,<br>And play the part<br>With throbbing heart,<br>And all an actor's glowing art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she who plays my Lady-love<br>Excels!--Her loving glance<br>Has power her audience to move--<br>I am her audience.--<br>Her acting tact,<br>To tell the fact,<br>'Brings down the house' in every act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And often we defy the curse<br>Of storms and thunder-showers,<br>To meet together and rehearse<br>This little play of ours--<br>I think, when she<br>'Makes love' to me,<br>She kisses very naturally!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">. . . . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes; it's convincing--rather--<br>That 'Life is like a play':<br>I am playing 'Heavy Father'<br>In a 'Screaming Farce' to-day,<br>That so 'brings down<br>The house,' I frown,<br>And fain would 'ring the curtain down.'</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=416740" data-title="Private Theatricals de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="A quite convincing axiom Is, 'Life is like a play'; For, turning back its pages some Few dog-eared years away, I find where I Committed my Love-tale--with brackets where to sigh. I feel an idle interest To read again the page; I enter, as a lover..."></div> </div> </div>

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