<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The God of Pain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">UNWILLING priestess in thy cruel fane, <br>Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, <br>Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows, <br>My tired breast girt with suffering, and my brows <br>Anointed with perpetual weariness. <br>Long have I borne thy service, through the stress <br>Of rigorous years, sad days and slumberless nights, <br>Performing thine inexorable rites. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For thy dark altars, balm nor milk nor rice, <br>But mine own soul thou'st ta'en for sacrifice: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the rich honey of my youth's desire, <br>And all the sweet oils from my crushed life drawn, <br>And all my flower-like dreams and gem-like fire <br>Of hopes up-leaping like the light of dawn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I have no more to give, all that was mine <br>Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine; <br>Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung, <br>And all my cheerless orisons are sung; <br>Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep <br>To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sarojini+Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</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=513868" data-title="To The God of Pain de Sarojini Naidu" data-description="UNWILLING priestess in thy cruel fane, Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows, My tired breast girt with suffering, and my brows Anointed with perpetual weariness. Long have I borne thy service, t..."></div> </div> </div>

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