<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509942" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Afternoon In July</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How hushed and still are earth and air,<br>How languid ’neath the sun’s fierce ray—<br>Drooping and faint—the flowrets fair,<br>On this hot, sultry, summer day!<br>Vainly I watch the streamlet blue<br>That near my cottage home doth pass,<br>No ripple stirs its azure hue,<br>Still—waveless, as a sheet of glass </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if I woo from yonder trees<br>A breath of coolness for my brow,<br>They’ve none to give—not e’en a breeze<br>Rustles amid their foliage now;<br>Yes, hush! there stirred a leaf, but no,<br>Tis only some poor, panting bird,<br>With silenced note, head drooping low,<br>That ’mid the shady green boughs stirred. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh dear! how sultry! vain to seek<br>To while the time with pleasant book,<br>Soon drowsy head and crimsoned cheek<br>Oblivious o’er its pages droop—<br>And motion is beyond my power,<br>While breathing this hot, scorching air,<br>It wearies me to raise the flowers,<br>That lie so close beside my chair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See stealing, wearied from their play,<br>The flushed and languid children come,<br>Saying that on so hot a day<br>They’d much prefer to stay at home.<br>Themselves upon the ground they throw,<br>Cheeks pillowed on each rounded arm—<br>And fall asleep soon, murmuring low,<br>And wondering “why it is so warm?” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If yonder patient sheep and kine,<br>Close shrinking from the sun’s hot flame,<br>Had man’s gift—“power of speech divine,”<br>They surely would repeat the same—<br>Each blade of grass, each fainting flower,<br>Would whisper to the shrubs and trees,<br>How much they longed for evening’s hour,<br>With cooling breath and grateful breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</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=509942" data-title="An Afternoon In July de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="How hushed and still are earth and air, How languid ’neath the sun’s fierce ray— Drooping and faint—the flowrets fair, On this hot, sultry, summer day! Vainly I watch the streamlet blue That near my cottage home doth pass, No ripple stirs ..."></div> </div> </div>

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