<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533760" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poppies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the flowers of sleep<br>That nod in the heavy noon,<br>Ere the brown shades eastward creep<br>To a drowsy and dreamful tune—<br>These are the flowers of sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love’s lilies are passion-pale,<br>But these on the sun-kissed flood<br>Of the corn, that rolls breast deep,<br>Burn redder than drops of blood<br>On a dead king’s golden mail. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heart’s dearest, I would that we<br>These blooms of forgetfulness<br>Might bind on our brows, and steep<br>Our love in Lethe ere less<br>Grow its flame with thee or me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Time with his evil eye<br>The beautiful Love has slain,<br>There is nought to gain or keep<br>Thereafter, and all is vain.<br>Should we wait to see Love die? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweetheart, of the joys men reap<br>We have reaped; ’tis time to rest.<br>Why should we wake but to weep?<br>Sleep and forgetting is best—<br>These are the flowers of sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</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=533760" data-title="Poppies de Victor James Daley" data-description="These are the flowers of sleep That nod in the heavy noon, Ere the brown shades eastward creep To a drowsy and dreamful tune— These are the flowers of sleep. Love’s lilies are passion-pale, But these on the sun-kissed flood Of the corn, that..."></div> </div> </div>

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