<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472349" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Toast To Wilkie Collins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FEBRUARY 16, 1874</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE painter's and the poet's fame<br>Shed their twinned lustre round his name,<br>To gild our story-teller's art,<br>Where each in turn must play his part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What scenes from Wilkie's pencil sprung,<br>The minstrel saw but left unsung!<br>What shapes the pen of Collins drew,<br>No painter clad in living hue!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But on our artist's shadowy screen<br>A stranger miracle is seen<br>Than priest unveils or pilgrim seeks,--<br>The poem breathes, the picture speaks!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so his double name comes true,<br>They christened better than they knew,<br>And Art proclaims him twice her son,--<br>Painter and poet, both in one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472349" data-title="A Toast To Wilkie Collins de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="FEBRUARY 16, 1874 THE painter's and the poet's fame Shed their twinned lustre round his name, To gild our story-teller's art, Where each in turn must play his part. What scenes from Wilkie's pencil sprung, The minstrel saw but left unsung! What ..."></div> </div> </div>

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