<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573241" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet C. In dreamy days of boyhood and of youth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In dreamy days of boyhood and of youth<br>Sweet Poesy whispered often in mine ear;<br>And I could then with voice distinct and clear<br>Repeat her ditties: but of late, in sooth,<br>The sterner mandates of unflattering Truth<br>Have filled my hearing, making not less dear<br>High strains of verse; but hallowing with fear<br>My thoughts and keen remorse, and backward ruth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore farewell, ye pleasant melodies<br>Of song, heroic, holy or pastoral:<br>Farewell, ye shades and voiceful forests all;<br>No more along your sward--paths dark with trees<br>Shall wander he, who, lightly skilled to please,<br>Could yet from leaf and rock poetic numbers call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Alford">Henry Alford</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=573241" data-title="Sonnet C. In dreamy days of boyhood and of youth de Henry Alford" data-description="In dreamy days of boyhood and of youth Sweet Poesy whispered often in mine ear; And I could then with voice distinct and clear Repeat her ditties: but of late, in sooth, The sterner mandates of unflattering Truth Have filled my hearing, making not..."></div> </div> </div>

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