<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509142" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Irony</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALL night a great wind blew across the land,<br>Come fresh from wild and salty seas,<br>With many voices loud and low<br>Appealing to the sympathies<br>Of those with whom long, long ago<br>It had been friends, but who<br>Had lost the way to know and understand<br>Its weird and tearless woe.<br>A sleeper, drawn from ancient fancies, stirred,<br>And strangely breathed in deep unrest<br>As though his heart were choked with grief;<br>The moon down-stealing in the west<br>Threw every move of limb and leaf<br>Upon his blind. Now this<br>Was he the wind sought wildly, had he heard —<br>Alas, the friend was deaf!<br>All time a great Thought wandered round the world<br>Naked and breathing loveliness,<br>Seeking in alien souls a home<br>And thwarted, yet a-seek no less<br>At every door, till forced to roam<br>A wonder unexpressed:<br>A sense of strangeness, as of wings unfurled,<br>Hovered at times o'er some.<br>He heard the knocking at the inner door;<br>He saw her face a light intense,<br>And stood amazed, irresolute.<br>'Now, thou who hast the poet-sense<br>In song serene and absolute<br>Proclaim my hidden worth!'<br>He sobbed; she drooped her wings . . .Woe evermore!<br>The chosen mind was mute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roderic+Quinn">Roderic Quinn</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=509142" data-title="Irony de Roderic Quinn" data-description="ALL night a great wind blew across the land, Come fresh from wild and salty seas, With many voices loud and low Appealing to the sympathies Of those with whom long, long ago It had been friends, but who Had lost the way to know and understand Its ..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black