<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536691" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Twenty Days</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty days are barely gone,<br>I was merry all the day.<br>Folly was my butt of scorn.<br>Now the fool myself I play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wit and learning ruled my head,<br>Logic and economy.<br>All the books I ever read<br>Taught me only vanity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of all it moved my mirth<br>Womankind the world should rule.<br>Man, the lord of all the Earth!<br>He, forsooth, a woman's tool!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cherry lip and glancing eye!<br>What were rosy cheeks to me?<br>Beauty's truth was but a lie--<br>Witness tomes of history!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty days had barely run.<br>Twenty years they well might be.<br>All my wisdom was undone,<br>Reason bade good--night to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her hair was of the red red gold,<br>Her blue eyes looked me through and through.<br>She was twenty--three years old,<br>I was twenty years and two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fortune, fame, I freely give,<br>Honour's self, if so she please,<br>Sweetly in her smile to live<br>Other twenty days like these.</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=536691" data-title="Twenty Days de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Twenty days are barely gone, I was merry all the day. Folly was my butt of scorn. Now the fool myself I play. Wit and learning ruled my head, Logic and economy. All the books I ever read Taught me only vanity. Most of all it moved my mirth Woman..."></div> </div> </div>

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