<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418798" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maiden Speaks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How grave thou lookest, loved one! wherefore so?<br>Thy marble image seems a type of thee;<br>Like it, no sign of life thou giv'st to me;<br>Compared with thee, the stone appears to glow.<br>Behind his shield in ambush lurks the foe,<br>The friend's brow all-unruffled we should see.<br>I seek thee, but thou seek'st away to flee;<br>Fix'd as this sculptured figure, learn to grow!<br>Tell me, to which should I the preference pay?<br>Must I from both with coldness meet alone?<br>The one is lifeless, thou with life art blest.<br>In short, no longer to throw words away,<br>I'll fondy kiss and kiss and kiss this stone,<br>Till thou dost tear me hence with envious breast.</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=418798" data-title="The Maiden Speaks de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="How grave thou lookest, loved one! wherefore so? Thy marble image seems a type of thee; Like it, no sign of life thou giv'st to me; Compared with thee, the stone appears to glow. Behind his shield in ambush lurks the foe, The friend's brow all-unr..."></div> </div> </div>

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