<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are not near enough to love,<br>I can but pity all your woe;<br>For wealth has lifted me above,<br>And falsehood set you down below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you were true, we still might be<br>Brothers in something more than name;<br>And were I poor, your love to me<br>Would make our differing bonds the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But golden gates between us stretch,<br>Truth opens her forbidding eyes;<br>You can't forget that I am rich,<br>Nor I that you are telling lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love never comes but at love's call,<br>And pity asks for him in vain;<br>Because I cannot give you all,<br>You give me nothing back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you are right with all your wrong,<br>For less than all is nothing too;<br>May Heaven beggar me ere long,<br>And Truth reveal herself to you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Elizabeth+Coleridge">Mary Elizabeth Coleridge</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=455744" data-title="An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar de Mary Elizabeth Coleridge" data-description="We are not near enough to love, I can but pity all your woe; For wealth has lifted me above, And falsehood set you down below. If you were true, we still might be Brothers in something more than name; And were I poor, your love to me Would make o..."></div> </div> </div>

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