<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nightingale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN the moon a golden-pale<br> Lustre on my casement flings,<br>An enchanted nightingale<br> In the haunted silence sings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange the song—its wondrous words<br> Taken from the primal tongue,<br>Known to men, and beasts, and birds,<br> When the care-worn world was young </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listening low, I hear the stars<br> Through her strains move solemnly,<br>And on lonesome banks and bars<br> Hear the sobbing of the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my memory dimly gropes<br> Hints to gather from her song<br>Of forgotten fears and hopes,<br> Joys and griefs forgotten long. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I feel once more the strife<br> Of a passion, fierce and grand,<br>That, in some long-vanished life,<br> Held my soul at its command. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, my Love, in robes of white<br> Standing by a moonlit sea,<br>Like a lily of the night,<br> Hast thou quite forgotten me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dost thou never dream at whiles<br> Of that silent, templed vale,<br>And the dim wood in whose aisles<br> Sang a secret nightingale? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whither hast thou gone? What star<br> Holds thy spirit pure and fine?<br>In this world below there are<br> None like thee: and thou wert mine! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a season all things last,<br> Love and Joy, and Life and Death;<br>Thou art portion of my past,<br> I of thine, whilst Time draws breath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fades the moonlight golden-pale,<br> And the bird has ceased to sing—<br>Ah, it was no nightingale,<br> But my heart—remembering.</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=533782" data-title="The Nightingale de Victor James Daley" data-description="WHEN the moon a golden-pale Lustre on my casement flings, An enchanted nightingale In the haunted silence sings. Strange the song—its wondrous words Taken from the primal tongue, Known to men, and beasts, and birds, When the care-worn worl..."></div> </div> </div>

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