<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455675" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XLII: Oh! Canst Thou Bear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! can'st thou bear to see this faded frame,<br>Deform'd and mangled by the rocky deep?<br>Wilt thou remember, and forbear to weep,<br>My fatal fondness, and my peerless fame?<br>Soon o'er this heart, now warm with passion's flame,<br>The howling winds and foamy waves shall sweep;<br>Those eyes be ever clos'd in death's cold sleep,<br>And all of Sappho perish, but her name!<br>Yet, if the Fates suspend their barb'rous ire,<br>If days less mournful, Heav'n designs for me!<br>If rocks grow kind, and winds and waves conspire,<br>To bear me softly on the swelling sea;<br>To Phoebus only will I tune my Lyre,<br>&quot;What suits with Sappho, Phoebus suits with thee!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</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=455675" data-title="Sonnet XLII: Oh! Canst Thou Bear de Mary Darby Robinson" data-description="Oh! can'st thou bear to see this faded frame, Deform'd and mangled by the rocky deep? Wilt thou remember, and forbear to weep, My fatal fondness, and my peerless fame? Soon o'er this heart, now warm with passion's flame, The howling winds and foam..."></div> </div> </div>

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