<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature, that washed her hands in milk, <br>And had forgot to dry them, <br>Instead of earth took snow and silk, <br>At love's request to try them, <br>If she a mistress could compose <br>To please love's fancy out of those.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her eyes he would should be of light, <br>A violet breath, and lips of jelly; <br>Her hair not black, nor overbright, <br>And of the softest down her belly; <br>As for her inside he'd have it <br>Only of wantonness and wit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At love's entreaty such a one <br>Nature made, but with her beauty <br>She hath framed a heart of stone; <br>So as Love, by ill destiny, <br>Must die for her whom nature gave him <br>Because her darling would not save him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But time, which nature doth despise <br>And rudely gives her love the lie, <br>Makes hope a fool, and sorrow wise, <br>His hands do neither wash nor dry; <br>But being made of steel and rust, <br>Turns snow and silk and milk to dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light, the belly, lips, and breath, <br>He dims, discolors, and destroys; <br>With those he feeds but fills not death, <br>Which sometimes were the food of joys. <br>Yea, time doth dull each lively wit, <br>And dries all wantonness with it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, cruel time, which takes in trust <br>Our youth, or joys, and all we have, <br>And pays us but with age and dust; <br>Who in the dark and silent grave <br>When we have wandered all our ways <br>Shuts up the story of our days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Walter+Raleigh">Sir Walter Raleigh</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=519571" data-title="Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk de Sir Walter Raleigh" data-description="Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, At love's request to try them, If she a mistress could compose To please love's fancy out of those. Her eyes he would should be of light,..."></div> </div> </div>

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