<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472638" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Portrait of</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Miss, I wonder where you live,<br>I wonder what’s your name,<br>I wonder how you came to be<br>In such a stylish frame;<br>Perhaps you were a favorite child,<br>Perhaps an only one;<br>Perhaps your friends were not aware<br>You had your portrait done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you must be a harmless soul;<br>I cannot think that Sin<br>Would care to throw his loaded dice,<br>With such a stake to win;<br>I cannot think you would provoke<br>The poet’s wicked pen,<br>Or make young women bite their lips,<br>Or ruin fine young men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pray, did you ever hear, my love,<br>Of boys that go about,<br>Who, for a very trifling sum,<br>Will snip one’s picture out? <br>I’m not averse to red and white,<br>But all things have their place,<br>I think a profile cut in black<br>Would suit your style of face!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love sweet features; I will own<br>That I should like myself<br>To see my portrait on a wall,<br>Or bust upon a shelf;<br>But nature sometimes makes one up<br>Of such sad odds and ends,<br>It really might be quite as well<br>Hushed up among one’s friends!</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=472638" data-title="To the Portrait of de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="Well, Miss, I wonder where you live, I wonder what’s your name, I wonder how you came to be In such a stylish frame; Perhaps you were a favorite child, Perhaps an only one; Perhaps your friends were not aware You had your portrait done. Ye..."></div> </div> </div>

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