<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. August</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON THE THAMES</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river Thames has many a dear delight<br>In summer days for souls which know not guile,<br>Or souls too careless of the vain world's spite<br>To heed its frowning while the heavens smile.<br>In boyhood all our pleasure was in toil,<br>As with bent backs we laboured at the oar;<br>We loved to spend our strength in the turmoil<br>Of speed disputed, conquered, conqueror.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But other years brought other joys. Alas!<br>Where is fair Rosamund, our heart's first queen,<br>Whose foot so lightly trod with us the grass,<br>Though burdened with the hundred loves of men,<br>At Kew, at Skindle's? But no more of this.<br>We still have joys, and still old Thames is green.<br>Still on his back we float awhile and press<br>His hand in hope, and call it happiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536554" data-title="The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. August de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ON THE THAMES The river Thames has many a dear delight In summer days for souls which know not guile, Or souls too careless of the vain world's spite To heed its frowning while the heavens smile. In boyhood all our pleasure was in toil, As with b..."></div> </div> </div>

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