<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>True Diffidence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My boy, you may take it from me,<br>That of all the afflictions accurst<br>With which a man's saddled<br>And hampered and addled,<br>A diffident nature's the worst.<br>Though clever as clever can be -<br>A Crichton of early romance -<br>You must stir it and stump it,<br>And blow your own trumpet,<br>Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now take, for example, MY case:<br>I've a bright intellectual brain -<br>In all London city<br>There's no one so witty -<br>I've thought so again and again.<br>I've a highly intelligent face -<br>My features cannot be denied -<br>But, whatever I try, sir,<br>I fail in - and why, sir?<br>I'm modesty personified!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a poet, I'm tender and quaint -<br>I've passion and fervour and grace -<br>From Ovid and Horace<br>To Swinburne and Morris,<br>They all of them take a back place.<br>Then I sing and I play and I paint;<br>Though none are accomplished as I,<br>To say so were treason:<br>You ask me the reason?<br>I'm diffident, modest, and shy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</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=539072" data-title="True Diffidence de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="My boy, you may take it from me, That of all the afflictions accurst With which a man's saddled And hampered and addled, A diffident nature's the worst. Though clever as clever can be - A Crichton of early romance - You must stir it and stump it, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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