<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419600" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Roses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I entered dutiful, God knows,<br>The room in which I was to sit<br>With dreary unbelieving books.<br>It was surprising, I suppose,<br>To find such happy change in it:<br>There stood a most celestial rose<br>And looked the flower that my love looks<br>Who, where she turns her smiling face<br>Makes heavy earth a hopeful place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I blessed the heart that wished me well<br>When I had been bereft of much,<br>And brought such word of beauty back.<br>I went like one escaping hell<br>To drink its fragrance and to touch,<br>And stroked, O ludicrous to tell!<br>A horrid thing of bric-a-brac,<br>A make-believe, a mockery,<br>And nothing that a rose should be. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Red real roses keep a thorn,<br>And save their loveliness a while<br>And in their perfect date unfold.<br>But you, beyond all women born,<br>Have spent so easily your smile,<br>That I am not the less forlorn<br>Nor these ironic walls less cold,<br>Because it smiles, the chilly rose,<br>As you are smiling, I suppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Crowe+Ransom">John Crowe Ransom</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=419600" data-title="Roses de John Crowe Ransom" data-description="I entered dutiful, God knows, The room in which I was to sit With dreary unbelieving books. It was surprising, I suppose, To find such happy change in it: There stood a most celestial rose And looked the flower that my love looks Who, where she tu..."></div> </div> </div>

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