<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXVII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ASKING THE FULFILMENT OF HER LOVE<br>I ask for love who famished am in plenty,<br>Not scorning the dear manna of your tears<br>But being vexed with that too froward twenty<br>Which heads the sum of my rebellious years.<br>My soul is fallen ``in lust of cucumbers,<br>Of fish, of melons,'' through its long abstaining.<br>Unworthy Egypt yet enslaves my fears.<br>Ah, love, I thirst, but not for heaven's raining.<br>Why speak to me, alas, of heavenly joys<br>Who ask for joys of earth these cannot cheat?<br>What are these clouds, these pillars of fire to me?<br>The wilderness is long. Youth cannot be<br>For ever fed on these unnatural toys<br>And needs must murmur if it have not meat.</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=536601" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXVII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ASKING THE FULFILMENT OF HER LOVE I ask for love who famished am in plenty, Not scorning the dear manna of your tears But being vexed with that too froward twenty Which heads the sum of my rebellious years. My soul is fallen ``in lust of cucumbers..."></div> </div> </div>

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