<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432184" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Delos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Diana Gould</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On charts they fall like lace,<br>Islands consuming in a sea<br>Born dense with its own blue:<br>And like repairing mirrors holding up<br>Small towns and trees and rivers<br>To the still air, the lovely air:<br>From the clear side of springing Time,<br>In clement places where the windmills ride,<br>Turning over grey springs in Mykonos,<br>In shadows with a gesture of content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The statues of the dead here<br>Embark on sunlight, sealed<br>Each in her model with the sightless eyes:<br>The modest stones of Greeks,<br>Who gravely interrupted death by pleasure.<br>And in harbours softly fallen<br>The liver-coloured sails -<br>Sharp-featured brigantines with eyes -<br>Ride in reception so like women:<br>The pathetic faculty of girls<br>To register and utter desire<br>In the arms of men upon the new-mown waters,<br>Follow the wind, with their long shining keels<br>Aimed across Delos at a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+Durrell">Lawrence Durrell</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=432184" data-title="Delos de Lawrence Durrell" data-description="For Diana Gould On charts they fall like lace, Islands consuming in a sea Born dense with its own blue: And like repairing mirrors holding up Small towns and trees and rivers To the still air, the lovely air: From the clear side of springing Time..."></div> </div> </div>

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