<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512752" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy, Imitated From One Of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near the lone pile with ivy overspread,<br>Fast by the rivulet's sleep-persuading sound,<br>Where 'sleeps the moonlight' on yon verdant bed--<br>O humbly press that consecrated ground!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there does Edmund rest, the learned swain!<br>And there his spirit most delights to rove:<br>Young Edmund! famed for each harmonious strain,<br>And the sore wounds of ill-requited love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like some tall tree that spreads its branches wide,<br>And loads the west wind with its soft perfume,<br>His manhood blossomed: till the faithless pride<br>Of fair Matilda sank him to the tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soon did righteous Heaven her guilt pursue!<br>Where'er with wildered step she wandered pale,<br>Still Edmund's image rose to blast her view,<br>Still Edmund's voice accused her in each gale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With keen regret, and conscious guilt's alarms,<br>Amid the pomp of affluence she pined;<br>Nor all that lured her faith from Edmund's arms<br>Could lull the wakeful horror of her mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go, Traveller! tell the tale with sorrow fraught:<br>Some tearful maid perchance, or blooming youth,<br>May hold it in remembrance; and be taught<br>That riches cannot pay for Love or Truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</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=512752" data-title="Elegy, Imitated From One Of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Near the lone pile with ivy overspread, Fast by the rivulet's sleep-persuading sound, Where 'sleeps the moonlight' on yon verdant bed-- O humbly press that consecrated ground! For there does Edmund rest, the learned swain! And there his spirit mo..."></div> </div> </div>

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