<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lost Kiss</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I put by the half-written poem,<br>While the pen, idly trailed in my hand,<br>Writes on--, 'Had I words to complete it,<br>Who'd read it, or who'd understand?'<br>But the little bare feet on the stairway,<br>And the faint, smothered laugh in the hall,<br>And the eerie-low lisp on the silence,<br>Cry up to me over it all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I gather it up-- where was broken<br>The tear-faded thread of my theme,<br>Telling how, as one night I sat writing,<br>A fairy broke in on my dream,<br>A little inquisitive fairy--<br>My own little girl, with the gold<br>Of the sun in her hair, and the dewy<br>Blue eyes of the fairies of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas the dear little girl that I scolded--<br>'For was it a moment like this,'<br>I said, 'when she knew I was busy,<br>To come romping in for a kiss--?<br>Come rowdying up from her mother,<br>And clamoring there at my knee<br>For 'One 'ittle kiss for my dolly,<br>And one 'ittle uzzer for me!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God pity, the heart that repelled her,<br>And the cold hand that turned her away,<br>And take, from the lips that denied her,<br>This answerless prayer of to-day!<br>Take Lord, from my mem'ry forever<br>That pitiful sob of despair,<br>And the patter and trip of the little bare feet,<br>And the one piercing cry on the stair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I put by the half-written poem,<br>While the pen, idly trailed in my hand<br>Writes on--, 'Had I words to complete it<br>Who'd read it, or who'd understand?'<br>But the little bare feet on the stairway,<br>And the faint, smothered laugh in the hall,<br>And the eerie-low lisp on the silence,<br>Cry up to me over it all.</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=416808" data-title="The Lost Kiss de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="I put by the half-written poem, While the pen, idly trailed in my hand, Writes on--, 'Had I words to complete it, Who'd read it, or who'd understand?' But the little bare feet on the stairway, And the faint, smothered laugh in the hall, And the ee..."></div> </div> </div>

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