<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Betrothed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth,<br>You have said my name as a prayer.<br>Here where trees are planted by the water<br>I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret,<br>And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother remembers the agony of her womb<br>And long years that seemed to promise more than this.<br>She says, &quot;You do not love me,<br>You do not want me,<br>You will go away.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In the country whereto I go<br> I shall not see the face of my friend<br> Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;<br> Together we shall not find<br> The land on whose hills bends the new moon<br> In air traversed of birds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What have I thought of love?<br>I have said, &quot;It is beauty and sorrow.&quot;<br>I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendor<br>As a wind out of old time . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there is only the evening here,<br>And the sound of willows<br>Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Bogan">Louise Bogan</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=450012" data-title="Betrothed de Louise Bogan" data-description="You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted by the water I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret, And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say, My mother remem..."></div> </div> </div>

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