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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472481" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Musa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quite<br>Thy wings of morning light<br>Beyond those iron gates<br>Where Life crowds hurrying to the haggard Fates,<br>And Age upon his mound of ashes waits<br>To chill our fiery dreams,<br>Hot from the heart of youth plunged in his icy streams?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave me not fading in these weeds of care,<br>Whose flowers are silvered hair!<br>Have I not loved thee long,<br>Though my young lips have often done thee wrong,<br>And vexed thy heaven-tuned ear with careless song?<br>Ah, wilt thou yet return,<br>Bearing thy rose-hued torch, and bid thine altar burn?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me!--I will flood thy silent shrine<br>With my soul's sacred wine,<br>And heap thy marble floors<br>As the wild spice-trees waste their fragrant stores,<br>In leafy islands walled with madrepores<br>And lapped in Orient seas,<br>When all their feathery palms toss, plume-like, in the breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me!--thou shalt feed on honeyed words,<br>Sweeter than song of birds;--<br>No wailing bulbul's throat,<br>No melting dulcimer's melodious note<br>When o'er the midnight wave its murmurs float,<br>Thy ravished sense might soothe<br>With flow so liquid-soft, with strain so velvet-smooth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou shalt be decked with jewels, like a queen,<br>Sought in those bowers of green<br>Where loop the clustered vines<br>And the close-clinging dulcamara twines,--<br>Pure pearls of Maydew where the moonlight shines,<br>And Summer's fruited gems,<br>And coral pendants shorn from Autumn's berried stems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sit by me drifting on the sleepy waves,--<br>Or stretched by grass-grown graves,<br>Whose gray, high-shouldered stones,<br>Carved with old names Life's time-worn roll disowns,<br>Lean, lichen-spotted, o'er the crumbled bones<br>Still slumbering where they lay<br>While the sad Pilgrim watched to scare the wolf away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spread o'er my couch thy visionary wing!<br>Still let me dream and sing,--<br>Dream of that winding shore<br>Where scarlet cardinals bloom-for me no more,--<br>The stream with heaven beneath its liquid floor,<br>And clustering nenuphars<br>Sprinkling its mirrored blue like golden-chaliced stars!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come while their balms the linden-blossoms shed!--<br>Come while the rose is red,--<br>While blue-eyed Summer smiles<br>On the green ripples round yon sunken piles<br>Washed by the moon-wave warm from Indian isles,<br>And on the sultry air<br>The chestnuts spread their palms like holy men in prayer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh for thy burning lips to fire my brain<br>With thrills of wild, sweet pain!--<br>On life's autumnal blast,<br>Like shrivelled leaves, youth's passion-flowers are cast,--<br>Once loving thee, we love thee to the last!--<br>Behold thy new-decked shrine,<br>And hear once more the voice that breathed 'Forever thine!'</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>
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Thy wings of morning light
Beyond those iron gates
Where Life crowds hurrying to the haggard Fates,
And Age upon his mound of ashes waits
To chill our fiery dreams,
Hot from the heart of youth plunged in h..."></div>
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