<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written In A Quarrel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think, Delia, with what cruel haste<br>Our fleeting pleasures move,<br>Nor heedless in sorrow waste<br>The moments due to love;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be wise, my fair, and gently treat <br>These few that are our friends;<br>Think thus abused, what sad regret<br>Their speedy flight attends!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure in those eyes I loved so well,<br>And wished so long to see,<br>Anger I thought could never dwell,<br>Or anger aimed at me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No bold offence of mine I knew<br>Should e'er provoke your hate;<br>And, early taught to think you true,<br>Still hoped a gentler fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With kindness bless the present hour,<br>Or oh! we meet in vain!<br>What can we do in absence more<br>Than suffer and complain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fated to ills beyond redress,<br>We must endure our woe;<br>The days allowed us to possess,<br>'Tis madness to forego.</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=537985" data-title="Written In A Quarrel de William Cowper" data-description="Think, Delia, with what cruel haste Our fleeting pleasures move, Nor heedless in sorrow waste The moments due to love; Be wise, my fair, and gently treat These few that are our friends; Think thus abused, what sad regret Their speedy flight atte..."></div> </div> </div>

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