<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Comparison</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis by comparison we know<br>On every object to bestow<br>Its proper share of praise<br>Did each alike perfection bear,<br>What beauty, though divinely fair,<br>Could admiration raise?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amidst the lucid bands of night,<br>See! Hesperus, serenely bright,<br>Adorns the distant skies:<br>But languishes amidst the blaze<br>Of sprightly Sol's meridian rays,-<br>Or Silvia's brighter eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whene'er the nightingale complains,<br>I like the melancholy strains,<br>And praise the tuneful bird:<br>But vainly might she strain her throat,<br>Vainly exalt each swelling note,<br>Should Silvia's voice be heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When, on the violet's purple bed,<br>Supine I rest my weary head,<br>The fragrant pillow charms:<br>Yet soon such languid bliss I'd fly,<br>Would Silvia but the loss supply,<br>And take me to her arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The alabaster's wondrous white,<br>The marble's polish strikes my sight,<br>When Silvia is not seen:<br>But ah! how faint that white is grown,<br>How rough appears the polish'd stone,<br>Compared with Silvia's mien!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rose, that o'er the Cyprian plains,<br>With flowers enamell'd, blooming reigns,<br>With undisputed power,<br>Placed near her cheek's celestial red<br>(Its purple lost, its lustre fled),<br>Delights the sense no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Shenstone">William Shenstone</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=539250" data-title="Comparison de William Shenstone" data-description="'Tis by comparison we know On every object to bestow Its proper share of praise Did each alike perfection bear, What beauty, though divinely fair, Could admiration raise? Amidst the lucid bands of night, See! Hesperus, serenely bright, Adorns the..."></div> </div> </div>

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