<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537531" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did not my Muse (what can she less?)<br>Perceive her own unworthiness,<br>Could she by some well-chosen theme, <br>But hope to merit your esteem,<br>She would not thus conceal her lays,<br>Ambitious to deserve your praise.<br>But should my Delia take offence,<br>And frown on her impertinence,<br>In silence, sorrowing and forlorn,<br>Would the despairing trifler mourn,<br>Curse her ill-tuned, unpleasing lute,<br>Then sigh and sit for ever mute.<br>In secret therefore let her play,<br>Squandering her idle notes away<br>In secret as she chants along,<br>Cheerful and careless in her song;<br>Nor heeds she whether harsh or clear<br>Free from each terror, every fear,<br>From that, of all most dreaded, free,<br>The terror of offending thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537531" data-title="An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote de William Cowper" data-description="Did not my Muse (what can she less?) Perceive her own unworthiness, Could she by some well-chosen theme, But hope to merit your esteem, She would not thus conceal her lays, Ambitious to deserve your praise. But should my Delia take offence, And f..."></div> </div> </div>

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