<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513667" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wind in the Hemlock</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Steely stars and moon of brass,<br>How mockingly you watch me pass!<br>You know as well as I how soon<br>I shall be blind to stars and moon,<br>Deaf to the wind in the hemlock tree,<br>Dumb when the brown earth weighs on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With envious dark rage I bear,<br>Stars, your cold complacent stare;<br>Heart-broken in my hate look up,<br>Moon, at your clear immortal cup,<br>Changing to gold from dusky red --<br>Age after age when I am dead<br>To be filled up with light, and then<br>Emptied, to be refilled again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What has man done that only he<br>Is slave to death -- so brutally<br>Beaten back into the earth<br>Impatient for him since his birth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh let me shut my eyes, close out<br>The sight of stars and earth and be<br>Sheltered a minute by this tree.<br>Hemlock, through your fragrant boughs<br>There moves no anger and no doubt,<br>No envy of immortal things.<br>The night-wind murmurs of the sea<br>With veiled music ceaselessly,<br>That to my shaken spirit sings.<br>From their frail nest the robins rouse,<br>In your pungent darkness stirred,<br>Twittering a low drowsy word --<br>And me you shelter, even me.<br>In your quietness you house<br>The wind, the woman and the bird.<br>You speak to me and I have heard:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;If I am peaceful, I shall see<br>Beauty's face continually;<br>Feeding on her wine and bread<br>I shall be wholly comforted,<br>For she can make one day for me<br>Rich as my lost eternity.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sara+Teasdale">Sara Teasdale</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=513667" data-title="The Wind in the Hemlock de Sara Teasdale" data-description="Steely stars and moon of brass, How mockingly you watch me pass! You know as well as I how soon I shall be blind to stars and moon, Deaf to the wind in the hemlock tree, Dumb when the brown earth weighs on me. With envious dark rage I bear, Stars..."></div> </div> </div>

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