<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Faded Flower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk,<br>Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way;<br>Inhal'd awhile thy odours on his walk,<br>Then onward pass'd and left thee to decay.<br>Ah! melancholy emblem! had I seen<br>Thy modest beauties dew'd with Evening's gem,<br>I had not rudely cropp'd thy parent stem,<br>But left thee, blushing, 'mid the enliven'd green.<br>And now I bend me o'er thy wither'd bloom,<br>And drop the tear - as Fancy, at my side,<br>Deep-sighing, points the fair frail Abra's tomb -<br>'Like thine, sad Flower, was that poor wanderer's pride!<br>Oh! lost to Love and Truth, whose selfish joy<br>Tasted her vernal sweets, but tasted to destroy!'</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=512853" data-title="The Faded Flower de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk, Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way; Inhal'd awhile thy odours on his walk, Then onward pass'd and left thee to decay. Ah! melancholy emblem! had I seen Thy modest beauties dew'd with Evening's ..."></div> </div> </div>

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