<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477163" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plaintive Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evening lay hot and sticky. <br>I lay wakeful, sleepless and fretful<br>Drowning in the sultry heat. <br>The sounds of eventide drifted in<br>To ooze across my open window.<br>As I listened with attentive ear, <br>Each errant sound was carried to my bed<br>By the winds gentle proposition. <br>She gently trembled silken curtains to rustle.<br>A disembodied voice in the plaintive night, <br>To bring the pungent scents of the frangipan.<br>The chitterings of playful cicadas<br>In deep dark velvet midnight. <br>Far off a murmured accompaniment<br>Brought soft and low across the turgid air.<br>The gently whispering sound of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">P H Brookes Copyright 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Brookes">Paul Brookes</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=477163" data-title="Plaintive Night de Paul Brookes" data-description="The evening lay hot and sticky. I lay wakeful, sleepless and fretful Drowning in the sultry heat. The sounds of eventide drifted in To ooze across my open window. As I listened with attentive ear, Each errant sound was carried to my bed By the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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