<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537949" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bard, if e'er he feel at all,<br>Must sure be quickened by a call<br>Both on his heart and head,<br>To pay with tuneful thanks the care<br>And kindness of a lady fair <br>Who deigns to deck his bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bed like this, in ancient time,<br>On Ida's barren top sublime,<br>(As Homer's Epic shows),<br>Composed of sweetest vernal flowers,<br>Without the aid of sun or showers,<br>For Jove and Juno rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Less beautiful, however gay,<br>Is that which in the scorching day<br>Receives the weary swain<br>Who, laying his long scythe aside,<br>Sleeps on some bank with daisies pied,<br>Till roused to toil again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What labours of the loom I see!<br>Looms numberless have groaned for me!<br>Should every maiden come<br>To scramble for the patch that bears<br>The impress of the robe she wears,<br>The bell would toll for some.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And oh, what havoc would ensue!<br>This bright display of every hue<br>All in a moment fled!<br>As if a storm should strip the bowers<br>Of all their tendrils, leaves, and flowers,--<br>Each pocketing a shred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thanks, then, to every gentle Fair,<br>Who will not come to peck me bare<br>As bird of borrowed feather, <br>And thanks to one, above them all,<br>The gentle Fair of Pertenhall,<br>Who put the whole together.</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=537949" data-title="To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making de William Cowper" data-description="The Bard, if e'er he feel at all, Must sure be quickened by a call Both on his heart and head, To pay with tuneful thanks the care And kindness of a lady fair Who deigns to deck his bed. A bed like this, in ancient time, On Ida's barren top subl..."></div> </div> </div>

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