<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506385" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lost Mistress, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br> <br>All's over, then: does truth sound bitter<br> As one at first believes?<br>Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter<br> About your cottage eaves!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,<br> I noticed that, to-day;<br>One day more bursts them open fully<br> ---You know the red turns grey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?<br> May I take your hand in mine?<br>Mere friends are we,---well, friends the merest<br> Keep much that I resign:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For each glance of the eye so bright and black,<br> Though I keep with heart's endeavour,---<br>Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,<br> Though it stay in my soul for ever!---</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I will but say what mere friends say,<br> Or only a thought stronger;<br>I will hold your hand but as long as all may,<br> Or so very little longer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</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=506385" data-title="Lost Mistress, The de Robert Browning" data-description="I. All's over, then: does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter About your cottage eaves! II. And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly, I noticed that, to-day; One day more bursts them ope..."></div> </div> </div>

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