<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spoilsport</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My familiar ghost again<br>Comes to see what he can see, <br>Critic, son of Conscious Brain, <br>Spying on our privacy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slam the window, bolt the door,<br>Yet he’ll enter in and stay; <br>In tomorrow’s book he’ll score <br>Indiscretions of today. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whispered love and muttered fears, <br>How their echoes fly about!<br>None escape his watchful ears, <br>Every sigh might be a shout. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No kind words nor angry cries <br>Turn away this grim spoilsport; <br>No fine lady’s pleading eyes,<br>Neither love, nor hate, nor … port. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Critic wears no smile of fun, <br>Speaks no word of blame nor praise, <br>Counts our kisses one by one, <br>Notes each gesture, every phrase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My familiar ghost again <br>Stands or squats where suits him best; <br>Critic, son of Conscious Brain, <br>Listens, watches, takes no rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507179" data-title="The Spoilsport de Robert Graves" data-description="My familiar ghost again Comes to see what he can see, Critic, son of Conscious Brain, Spying on our privacy. Slam the window, bolt the door, Yet he’ll enter in and stay; In tomorrow’s book he’ll score Indiscretions of today. Whispere..."></div> </div> </div>

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