<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written at the Request of a Gentleman to Whom a Lady Had Given a Sprig of Myrtle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What hopes - what terrors does this gift create?<br>Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate.<br>The myrtle (ensign of supreme command<br>Consign'd to Venus by Melissa's hand), <br>Not less capricious than a reigning fair,<br>Oft favours, oft rejects a lover's prayer.<br>In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain:<br>The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads,<br>The unhappy lovers' graves the myrtle spreads. <br>Oh! then the meaning of thy gift impart,<br>And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart:<br>Soon must this sprig, as you shall fix its doom,<br>Adorn Philander's head, or grace his tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Johnson">Samuel Johnson</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=512719" data-title="Written at the Request of a Gentleman to Whom a Lady Had Given a Sprig of Myrtle de Samuel Johnson" data-description="What hopes - what terrors does this gift create? Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate. The myrtle (ensign of supreme command Consign'd to Venus by Melissa's hand), Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Oft favours, oft rejects a lover's prayer...."></div> </div> </div>

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