<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon a Visit to a Lady of Quality</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On fair Asteria's blissful plains,<br>Where ever-blooming fancy reigns,<br>How pleased we pass the winter's day,<br>And charm the dull-eyed Spleen away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No linnet, from the leafless bough,<br>Pours forth her note melodious now,<br>But all admire Asteria's tongue,<br>Nor wish the linnet's vernal song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No flowers emit their transient rays;<br>Yet sure Asteria's wit displays<br>More various tints, more glowing lines,<br>And with perennial beauty shines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though rifled groves and fetter'd streams<br>But ill befriend a poet's dreams;<br>Asteria's presence wakes the lyre,<br>And well supplies poetic fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fields have lost their lovely dye;<br>No cheerful azure decks the sky:<br>Yet still we bless the lowering day;<br>Asteria smiles-and all is gay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence let the Muse no more presume,<br>To blame the winter's dreary gloom;<br>Accuse his loitering hours no more,<br>But, ah! their envious haste deplore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For soon, from Wit and Friendship's reign,<br>The social hearth, the sprightly vein,<br>I go-to meet the coming year,<br>On savage plains, and deserts drear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I go-to feed on pleasures flown,<br>Nor find the spring my loss atone;<br>But, 'mid the flowery sweets of May,<br>With pride recall this winter's day.</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=539338" data-title="Upon a Visit to a Lady of Quality de William Shenstone" data-description="On fair Asteria's blissful plains, Where ever-blooming fancy reigns, How pleased we pass the winter's day, And charm the dull-eyed Spleen away! No linnet, from the leafless bough, Pours forth her note melodious now, But all admire Asteria's tongu..."></div> </div> </div>

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