<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Cross</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrote a poem to the moon<br>But no one noticed it;<br>Although I hoped that late or soon<br>Someone would praise a bit<br>Its purity and grace forlone,<br>Its beauty tulip-cool...<br>But as my poem died still-born,<br>I felt a fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrote a verse of vulgar trend<br>Spiced with an oath or two;<br>I tacked a snapper at the end<br>And called it Dan McGrew.<br>I spouted it to bar-room boys,<br>Full fifty years away;<br>Yet still with rude and ribald noise<br>It lives today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis bitter truth, but there you are-<br>That's how a name is made;<br>Write of a rose, a lark, a star,<br>You'll never make the grade.<br>But write of gutter and of grime,<br>Of pimp and prostitute,<br>The multitude will read your rhyme,<br>And pay to boot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So what's the use to burn and bleed<br>And strive for beauty's sake?<br>No one your poetry will read,<br>Your heart will only break.<br>But set your song in vulgar pitch,<br>If rhyme you will not rue,<br>And make your heroine a bitch...<br>Like Lady Lou.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508482" data-title="My Cross de Robert William Service" data-description="I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it; Although I hoped that late or soon Someone would praise a bit Its purity and grace forlone, Its beauty tulip-cool... But as my poem died still-born, I felt a fool. I wrote a verse of vulgar trend ..."></div> </div> </div>

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