<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419978" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dante and Beatrice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pleasing emerald were those eyes<br>that turned to look at me.<br>Although I was a boy of nine, <br>that fixed my destiny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I scarcely thought of food or drink<br>so perfect was her smile.<br>I would be in heaven<br>were she to bide with me awhile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sought out the places she might go, <br>as we were of the same class.<br>Alas, I was a step too slow<br>to catch the echo of her laugh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw her once, at Arno Bridge, <br>when she was sweet sixteen.<br>She saw me, smiled, and spoke my name.<br>I was a tongue tied teen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her wealthy parents made a match<br>and betrothed her to another man.<br>My parents likewise chose my bride<br>and bade me take her hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Beatrice died, aged twenty four<br>when Heaven stilled her lips.<br>Dead, before I pled my love<br>or touched her fingertips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps on the streets of Heaven<br>our eyes will once more meet.<br>Then there will be time enough for love, <br>provided we’re discreet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=419978" data-title="Dante and Beatrice de John F. McCullagh" data-description="A pleasing emerald were those eyes that turned to look at me. Although I was a boy of nine, that fixed my destiny. I scarcely thought of food or drink so perfect was her smile. I would be in heaven were she to bide with me awhile. I sought out ..."></div> </div> </div>

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