<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Along the uneven row of poplars [Pe lângă plopii fără soţ]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Along the uneven row of poplars<br>I used to stroll a lot<br>And I was known by all your neighbours<br>But you, you knew me not. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your window shining bright and good<br>I often stood and scanned<br>And everybody understood,<br>You didn't understand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many times I waited scared<br>A whisper of reply!<br>A single day, to know you cared,<br>A day to end my sigh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least an hour to be friends<br>And give our love a try<br>To listen how your voice ascends<br>An hour, and then die. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If from your eye you would have let<br>A ray to fly afar<br>To meet the coming ages net<br>It would have lit a star;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You would have lived eternally<br>And many lives, I know<br>And with your cold arms, certainly <br>You would have turned to snow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A face that many want to cherish<br>But nobody possess<br>Except for fairies without blemish<br>Who live in their recess. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loved you with my pagan eyes<br>That strived in agony<br>Which I'd been given by my wise<br>And distant ancestry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today, I do not feel ashamed<br>That seldom walk that way<br>It is in vain you turn your head<br>Because I look away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cause you are now like all the others<br>You walk and dress the same<br>I look at you, but my heart hovers,<br>The eyes have lost the flame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You should have let yourself imbued <br>With all that holy charm<br>And lit the candle while you could <br>For love can do no harm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mihai+Eminescu">Mihai Eminescu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<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=589744" data-title="Along the uneven row of poplars [Pe lângă plopii fără soţ] de Mihai Eminescu" data-description="Along the uneven row of poplars/I used to stroll a lot/And I was known by all your neighbours/But you, you knew me not. /Your window shining bright and good/I often stood and scanned/And everybody understood,/You didn't understand. /How many times..."></div> </div> </div>

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