<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534939" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!<br> Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!<br> (For what is my life, or any man's life, but a conflict with foes--<br> the old, the incessant war?)<br> You degradations--you tussle with passions and appetites;<br> You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds, the sharpest of<br> all;)<br> You toil of painful and choked articulations--you meannesses;<br> You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of<br> any;)<br> You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis;<br> Ah, think not you finally triumph--My real self has yet to come<br> forth;<br> It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me; 10<br> It shall yet stand up the soldier of unquestion'd victory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</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=534939" data-title="Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats de Walt Whitman" data-description="AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats! Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me! (For what is my life, or any man's life, but a conflict with foes-- the old, the incessant war?) You degradations--you tussle with passions and appetite..."></div> </div> </div>

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