<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537932" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Winter Nosegay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What Nature, alas! has denied<br>To the delicate growth of our isle,<br>Art has in a measure supplied,<br>And winter is deck’d with a smile.<br>See, Mary, what beauties I bring<br>From the shelter of that sunny shed,<br>Where the flowers have the charms of the spring,<br>Though abroad they are frozen and dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis a bower of Arcadian sweets,<br>Where Flora is still in her prime,<br>A fortress to which she retreats<br>From the cruel assaults of the clime.<br>While earth wears a mantle of snow,<br>These pinks are as fresh and as gay<br>As the fairest and sweetest that blow<br>On the beautiful bosom of May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See how they have safely survived<br>The frowns of a sky so severe;<br>Such Mary’s true love, that has lived<br>Through many a turbulent year.<br>The charms of the late-blowing rose<br>Seem graced with a livelier hue;<br>And the winter of sorrow best shows<br>The truth of a friend such as you.</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=537932" data-title="The Winter Nosegay de William Cowper" data-description="What Nature, alas! has denied To the delicate growth of our isle, Art has in a measure supplied, And winter is deck’d with a smile. See, Mary, what beauties I bring From the shelter of that sunny shed, Where the flowers have the charms of the sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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