<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419823" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Farewell, Fair Armida. A Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, fair Armida, my joy and my grief! <br>In vain I have loved you, and hope no relief; <br>Undone by your virtue, too strict and severe, <br>Your eyes gave me love, and you gave me despair: <br>Now called by my honour, I seek with content <br>The fate which in pity you would not prevent: <br>To languish in love were to find, by delay, <br>A death that's more welcome the speediest way. <br>On seas and in battles, in bullets and fire, <br>The danger is less than in hopeless desire; <br>My death's wound you give me, though far off I bear <br>My fall from your sight—not to cost you a tear: <br>But if the kind flood on a wave should convey, <br>And under your window my body should lay, <br>The wound on my breast when you happen to see, <br>You'll say with a sigh—it was given by me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Dryden">John Dryden</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=419823" data-title="Farewell, Fair Armida. A Song de John Dryden" data-description="Farewell, fair Armida, my joy and my grief! In vain I have loved you, and hope no relief; Undone by your virtue, too strict and severe, Your eyes gave me love, and you gave me despair: Now called by my honour, I seek with content The fate whi..."></div> </div> </div>

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