<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire,<br>No finger ever traced thy yellow page<br>Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble rage<br>The hearts thou wouldst have stirred. Not any fire<br>Save sad flames set to light a funeral pyre<br>Dost thou suggest. Nay,--impotent in age,<br>Unsought, thou holdst a corner of the stage<br>And ceasest even dumbly to aspire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How different was the thought of him that writ.<br>What promised he to love of ease and wealth,<br>When men should read and kindle at his wit.<br>But here decay eats up the book by stealth,<br>While it, like some old maiden, solemnly,<br>Hugs its incongruous virginity!</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=477816" data-title="Sonnet On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire, No finger ever traced thy yellow page Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble rage The hearts thou wouldst have stirred. Not any fire Save sad flames set to light a funeral pyre Dost thou suggest. Nay,--..."></div> </div> </div>

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