<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529537" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How she would have loved<br>A party to-day! -<br>Bright-hatted and gloved,<br>With table and tray<br>And chairs on the lawn<br>Her smiles would have shone<br>With welcomings…. But<br>She is shut, she is shut<br>From friendship's spell<br>In the jailing shell<br>Of her tiny cell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Or she would have reigned<br>At a dinner tonight<br>With ardours unfeigned,<br>And a generous delight;<br>All in her abode<br>She'd have freely bestowed<br>On her guests…. But alas,<br>She is shut under grass<br>Where no cups flow,<br>Powerless to know<br>That it might be so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And she would have sought<br>With a child's eager glance<br>The shy snowdrops brought<br>By the new year's advance,<br>And peered in the rime<br>Of Candlemas-time<br>For crocuses… chanced<br>It that she were not tranced<br>From sights she loved best;<br>Wholly possessed<br>By an infinite rest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And we are here staying<br>Amid these stale things<br>Who care not for gaying,<br>And those junketings<br>That wed so to joy her,<br>And never to cloy her<br>As us they cloy!… But<br>She is shut, she is shut<br>From the cheer of them, dead<br>To all done and said<br>In a yew-arched bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529537" data-title="Lament de Thomas Hardy" data-description="How she would have loved A party to-day! - Bright-hatted and gloved, With table and tray And chairs on the lawn Her smiles would have shone With welcomings…. But She is shut, she is shut From friendship's spell In the jailing shell Of her tiny c..."></div> </div> </div>

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