<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529121" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Petition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To spring belongs the violet, and the blown <br>Spice of the roses let the summer own. <br>Grant me this favor, Muse--all else withhold-- <br>That I may not write verse when I am old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet I pray you, Muse, delay the time! <br>Be not too ready to deny me rhyme; <br>And when the hour strikes, as it must, dear Muse, <br>I beg you very gently break the news.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529121" data-title="A Petition de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="To spring belongs the violet, and the blown Spice of the roses let the summer own. Grant me this favor, Muse--all else withhold-- That I may not write verse when I am old. And yet I pray you, Muse, delay the time! Be not too ready to deny me ..."></div> </div> </div>

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