<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Alcithoë</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IN your dim Greece of old, Alcithoë,<br>Death like a lover sought and crowned you young,<br>Between the olive orchards and the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they had twined your myrtle-buds, and hung<br>The stately cypress at your door, they said,<br>'Alcithoë is dead,<br>Before whose feet the flaming crocus sprung,<br>For whom the red rose opened ere the prime;<br>Those the gods love are taken before their time.'– </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! why did no one, watching you alone,<br>Snare your dead beauty in undying stone ?<br>The gold hair bound beneath its golden band,<br>The milk-white poppies closed within your hand;<br>That the harsh world a little space might keep<br>The last, still, exquisite vision of your sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marjorie+Lowry+Christie+Pickthall">Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall</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=454905" data-title="To Alcithoë de Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall" data-description="IN your dim Greece of old, Alcithoë, Death like a lover sought and crowned you young, Between the olive orchards and the sea. When they had twined your myrtle-buds, and hung The stately cypress at your door, they said, 'Alcithoë is dead, Before..."></div> </div> </div>

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