<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447150" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bluebeard’s First Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lie by the garden wall,<br>Buried and all alone;<br>The brown camellias fall<br>One by one on the stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buried and all alone,<br>Because I had loved the sky!<br>One by one on the stone<br>The blossoms shudder and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I had loved the sky—<br>The dark blue face of the sea!<br>(The blossoms shudder and die)<br>He murdered me at his knee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dark, blue face of the sea.<br>Nothing so dark as the tomb!<br>He murdered me at his knee.<br>I knew the truth of the room!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing so dark as the tomb<br>For the vile revenge of the vain.<br>I knew the truth of the room<br>And the price of his hidden stain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the vile revenge of the vain<br>I suffered the knife at my skin,<br>And the price of his hidden stain<br>Was two and eleven a tin!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I suffered the knife at my skin;<br>I knew the dye that he used<br>Was two and eleven a tin.<br>I confess I was somewhat amused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew the dye that he used.<br>I heard the stitch of my shroud.<br>I confess I was somewhat amused<br>At the fury that burst like a cloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard the stitch of my shroud,<br>And all of the world disappeared<br>At the fury that burst like a cloud<br>From the heaven’s blue of his beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all of the world disappeared!<br>I lie by the garden wall.<br>From the heaven’s blue of his beard<br>The brown camellias fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Leon+Gellert">Leon Gellert</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=447150" data-title="Bluebeard’s First Wife de Leon Gellert" data-description="I lie by the garden wall, Buried and all alone; The brown camellias fall One by one on the stone. Buried and all alone, Because I had loved the sky! One by one on the stone The blossoms shudder and die. Because I had loved the sky— The dark bl..."></div> </div> </div>

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