<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536579" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LOVE IS DEAD<br>My love is dead, dead and in spite of me,--<br>Dead while I lived,--while yet my blood was rife<br>With hope and pleasure and the pride of life.<br>For my love ended unexpectedly<br>During the Winter, stricken like a tree<br>By a night's cold, and frozen to the blood,<br>Whose leaves fell off and never were renewed<br>By any promise of the years to be.<br>And, when the Spring came, and the birds, to mate<br>Among its branches, lo! they found it bare,<br>Though all around was Summer in the wood.<br>Yet they took heart awhile, incredulous<br>That such a tree should be for ever dead.<br>``'Tis early yet,'' they cried. ``The Spring is late.<br>It shall still be as in the days that were.''<br>But Summer came and went while the tree stood<br>Bare in the sun like a deserted house.<br>--Then the birds suddenly despaired and fled.</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=536579" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVIII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LOVE IS DEAD My love is dead, dead and in spite of me,-- Dead while I lived,--while yet my blood was rife With hope and pleasure and the pride of life. For my love ended unexpectedly During the Winter, stricken like a tree By a..."></div> </div> </div>

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