<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Motives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF to a girl who loves us truly<br>Her mother gives instruction duly<br>In virtue, duty, and what not,--<br>And if she hearkens ne'er a jot,<br>But with fresh-strengthen'd longing flies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To meet our kiss that seems to burn,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Caprice has just as much concerned<br>As love in her bold enterprise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if her mother can succeed<br>In gaining for her maxims heed,<br>And softening the girl's heart too,<br>So that she coyly shuns our view,--<br>The heart of youth she knows but ill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when a maiden is thus stern,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virtue in truth has less concern<br>In this, than an inconstant will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</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=418684" data-title="Motives de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="IF to a girl who loves us truly Her mother gives instruction duly In virtue, duty, and what not,-- And if she hearkens ne'er a jot, But with fresh-strengthen'd longing flies To meet our kiss that seems to burn,-- Caprice has just as much concern..."></div> </div> </div>

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