Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile<br>Through wintry skies, upon the frozen waste,<br>Cheers e'en the face of misery to a smile;<br>But soon the momentary pleasure's past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How oft, my Delia, since our last farewell,<br>(Years that have rolled since that distressful hour), <br>Grieved I have said, when most our hopes prevail,<br>Our promised happiness is least secure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft I have thought the scene of troubles closed,<br>And hoped once more to gaze upon your charms;<br>As oft some dire mischance has interposed,<br>And snatched the expected blessing from my arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seaman thus, his shattered vessel lost,<br>Still vainly strives to shun the threatening death;<br>And while he thinks to gain the friendly coast,<br>And drops his feet, and feels the sands beneath,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Borne by the wave steep-sloping from the shore,<br>Back to the inclement deep, again he beats<br>The surge aside, and seems to treat secure;<br>And now the refluent wave his baffled toil defeats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had you, my love, forbade me to pursue<br>My fond attempt, disdainfully retired,<br>And with proud scorn compelled me to subdue<br>The ill-fated passion by yourself inspired;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then haply to some distant spot removed,<br>Hopeless to gain, unwilling to molest<br>With fond entreaties whom I dearly loved,<br>Despair or absense had redeemed my rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, sole partner in my Delia's heart,<br>Yet doomed far off in exile to complain,<br>Eternal absence cannot ease my smart,<br>And hope subsists but to prolong my pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, then, kind Heaven, be this my latest breath!<br>Here end my life, or make it worth my care;<br>Absence from whom we love is worse than death,<br>And frustrate hope severer than dismay.</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=537602" data-title="Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile de William Cowper" data-description="Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile
Through wintry skies, upon the frozen waste,
Cheers e'en the face of misery to a smile;
But soon the momentary pleasure's past.

How oft, my Delia, since our last farewell,
(Years that have rolled ..."></div>
</div>
</div>