<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478334" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,<br>Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,<br>And gentle odours led my steps astray,<br>Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring<br>Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay<br>Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling<br>Its green arms round the bosom of the stream,<br>But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightest in dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There grew pied wind-flowers and violets,<br>Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth,<br>The constellated flower that never sets;<br>Faint oxlips; tender bluebells, at whose birth<br>The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets--<br>Like a child, half in tenderness and mirth--<br>Its mother's face with Heaven's collected tears,<br>When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine,<br>Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may,<br>And cherry-blossoms, and white cups, whose wine<br>Was the bright dew, yet drained not by the day;<br>And wild roses, and ivy serpentine,<br>With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray;<br>And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold,<br>Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And nearer to the river's trembling edge<br>There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white,<br>And starry river buds among the sedge,<br>And floating water-lilies, broad and bright,<br>Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge<br>With moonlight beams of their own watery light;<br>And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green<br>As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methought that of these visionary flowers<br>I made a nosegay, bound in such a way<br>That the same hues, which in their natural bowers<br>Were mingled or opposed, the like array<br>Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours<br>Within my hand,--and then, elate and gay,<br>I hastened to the spot whence I had come,<br>That I might there present it!--Oh! to whom?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Percy+Bysshe+Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</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=478334" data-title="The Question de Percy Bysshe Shelley" data-description="I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, And gentle odours led my steps astray, Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling I..."></div> </div> </div>

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