<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529915" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Ghost</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the water an old ghost strode<br>To a churchyard on the shore,<br>And over him the waters had flowed<br>A thousand years or more,<br>And pale and wan and weary<br>Looked never a sprite as he;<br>For it's lonely and it's dreary<br>The ghost of a body to be<br>That has mouldered away in the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the billows the old ghost stepped,<br>And the winds in mockery sung;<br>For the bodiless ghost would fain have wept<br>Over the maiden that lay so young<br>'Mong the thistles and toadstools so hoary;<br>And he begged of the waves a tear,<br>But they shook upwards their moonlight glory,<br>And the shark looked on with a sneer<br>At his yearning desire and agony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Lovell+Beddoes">Thomas Lovell Beddoes</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=529915" data-title="The Old Ghost de Thomas Lovell Beddoes" data-description="Over the water an old ghost strode To a churchyard on the shore, And over him the waters had flowed A thousand years or more, And pale and wan and weary Looked never a sprite as he; For it's lonely and it's dreary The ghost of a body to be That ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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