<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535391" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poet Leaving Athens</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak not too ill of me, Athenian friends!<br>Nor ye, Athenian sages, speak too ill!<br>From others of all tribes am I secure.<br>I leave your confines: none whom you caress,<br>Finding me hungry and athirst, shall dip<br>Into Cephisos the grey bowl to quench<br>My thirst, or break the horny bread, and scoop<br>Stiffly around the scanty vase, wherewith<br>To gather the hard honey at the sides,<br>And give it me for having heard me sing.<br>Sages and friends! a better cause remains<br>For wishing no black sail upon my mast.<br>'Tis, friends and sages! lest, when other men<br>Say words a little gentler, ye repent,<br>Yet be forbidden by stern pride to share<br>The golden cup of kindness, pushing back<br>Your seats, and gasping for a draught of scorn.<br>Alas! shall this too, never lackt before,<br>Be, when you most would crave it, out of reach?<br>Thus on the plank, now Neptune is invoked,<br>I warn you of your peril: I must live,<br>And ye, O friends, howe'er unwilling, may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+Savage+Landor">Walter Savage Landor</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=535391" data-title="A Poet Leaving Athens de Walter Savage Landor" data-description="Speak not too ill of me, Athenian friends! Nor ye, Athenian sages, speak too ill! From others of all tribes am I secure. I leave your confines: none whom you caress, Finding me hungry and athirst, shall dip Into Cephisos the grey bowl to quench My..."></div> </div> </div>

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