<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Twas Summer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas summer,-- through the opening grass<br>The joyous flowers upsprang,<br>The birds in all their different tribes<br>Loud in the woodlands sang:<br>Then forth I went, and wandered far<br>The wide green meadow o'er;<br>Where cool and clear the fountain play'd, <br>There strayed I in that hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roaming on, the nightingale<br>Sang sweetly in my ear;<br>And, by the greenwood's shady side,<br>A dream came to me there;<br>Fast by the fountain, where bright flowers<br>Of sparkling hue we see,<br>Close sheltered from the summer heat,<br>That vision came to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All care was banished, and repose<br>Came o'er my wearied breast;<br>And kingdoms seemed to wait on me,<br>For I was with the blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, while it seemed as if away<br>My spirit soared on high,<br>And in the boundless joys of heaven<br>Was wrapt in ecstacy,<br>E'en then, my body revelled still <br>In earth's festivity;<br>And surely never was a dream<br>So sweet as this to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus I dream'd on, and might have dwelt<br>Still on that rapturous dream,<br>When, hark! a raven's luckless note<br>(Sooth, 'twas a direful scream,)<br>Broke up the vision of delight,<br>Instant my joy was past:<br>O, had a stone but met my hand,<br>That hour had been his last....</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walther+von+der+Vogelweide">Walther von der Vogelweide</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=535518" data-title="Twas Summer de Walther von der Vogelweide" data-description="'Twas summer,-- through the opening grass The joyous flowers upsprang, The birds in all their different tribes Loud in the woodlands sang: Then forth I went, and wandered far The wide green meadow o'er; Where cool and clear the fountain play'd, T..."></div> </div> </div>

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