<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455686" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXIV: O Thou! Meek Orb</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O thou! meek Orb! that stealing o'er the dale<br>Cheer'st with thy modest beams the noon of night!<br>On the smooth lake diffusing silv'ry light,<br>Sublimely still, and beautifully pale!<br>What can thy cool and placid eye avail,<br>Where fierce despair absorbs the mental sight,<br>While inbred glooms the vagrant thoughts invite,<br>To tempt the gulph where howling fiends assail?<br>O, Night! all nature owns thy temper'd pow'r;<br>Thy solemn pause, thy dews, thy pensive beam;<br>Thy sweet breath whisp'ring in the moonlight bow'r,<br>While fainting flow'rets kiss the wand'ring stream!<br>Yet, vain is ev'ry charm! and vain the hour,<br>That brings to madd'ning love, no soothing dream!</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=455686" data-title="Sonnet XXIV: O Thou! Meek Orb de Mary Darby Robinson" data-description="O thou! meek Orb! that stealing o'er the dale Cheer'st with thy modest beams the noon of night! On the smooth lake diffusing silv'ry light, Sublimely still, and beautifully pale! What can thy cool and placid eye avail, Where fierce despair absorbs..."></div> </div> </div>

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