<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Madrigal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dream days of fond delight and hours<br>As rosy-hued as dawn, are mine.<br>Love's drowsy wine,<br>Brewed from the heart of Passion flowers,<br>Flows softly o'er my lips<br>And save thee, all the world is in eclipse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were no light if thou wert not;<br>The sun would be too sad to shine,<br>And all the line<br>Of hours from dawn would be a blot;<br>And Night would haunt the skies,<br>An unlaid ghost with staring dark-ringed eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, love, if thou wert not my love,<br>And I perchance not thine--what then?<br>Could gift of men<br>Or favor of the God above,<br>Plant aught in this bare heart<br>Or teach this tongue the singer's soulful art?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, no! 'Tis love, and love alone<br>That spurs my soul so surely on;<br>Turns night to dawn,<br>And thorns to roses fairest blown;<br>And winter drear to spring--<br>Oh, were it not for love I could not sing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477571" data-title="A Madrigal de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Dream days of fond delight and hours As rosy-hued as dawn, are mine. Love's drowsy wine, Brewed from the heart of Passion flowers, Flows softly o'er my lips And save thee, all the world is in eclipse. There were no light if thou wert not; The sun..."></div> </div> </div>

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