<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536578" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">JOY'S TREACHERY<br>I had a live joy once and pampered her,<br>For I had brought her from the ``golden East,''<br>To lie when nights were cold upon my breast<br>And sit beside me the long days and purr,<br>Until her whole soul should be lapped in fur,<br>Deep as her claws; a beautiful sleek beast,<br>Which I might love.--But, when I deemed it least,<br>Her topaz eyes were on my stomacher,<br>Athirst for blood. Thus, for I loathed her since<br>I learned her guile, one night I had her slain<br>And thrown upon a dunghill to the flies,<br>Who bred in her fair limbs a pestilence,<br>Whereof I sickened.--Thus it ever is:<br>Dead joys unburied breed us death and pain.</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=536578" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="JOY'S TREACHERY I had a live joy once and pampered her, For I had brought her from the ``golden East,'' To lie when nights were cold upon my breast And sit beside me the long days and purr, Until her whole soul should be lapped in fur, Deep as her..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black