<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Midsummer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HERE! sweep these foolish leaves away,<br>I will not crush my brains to-day!<br>Look! are the southern curtains drawn?<br>Fetch me a fan, and so begone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not that,--the palm-tree's rustling leaf<br>Brought from a parching coral-reef<br>Its breath is heated;--I would swing<br>The broad gray plumes,--the eagle's wing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hate these roses' feverish blood!<br>Pluck me a half-blown lily-bud,<br>A long-stemmed lily from the lake,<br>Cold as a coiling water-snake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rain me sweet odors on the air,<br>And wheel me up my Indian chair,<br>And spread some book not overwise<br>Flat out before my sleepy eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows it not,--this dead recoil<br>Of weary fibres stretched with toil,--<br>The pulse that flutters faint and low<br>When Summer's seething breezes blow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Nature! bare thy loving breast,<br>And give thy child one hour of rest,--<br>One little hour to lie unseen<br>Beneath thy scarf of leafy green!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, curtained by a singing pine,<br>Its murmuring voice shall blend with mine,<br>Till, lost in dreams, my faltering lay<br>In sweeter music dies away.</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=472480" data-title="Midsummer de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="HERE! sweep these foolish leaves away, I will not crush my brains to-day! Look! are the southern curtains drawn? Fetch me a fan, and so begone! Not that,--the palm-tree's rustling leaf Brought from a parching coral-reef Its breath is heated;--I w..."></div> </div> </div>

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