<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589876" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Belated love [Dragoste târzie]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether I loved you as you love, I think <br>My heart would whisper yes, my mind would shrink.<br>You thought the flood would take away my ark<br>And I'd be set on fire by your spark. <br>Where did you come from with that pretty face,<br>To bring me stars and thrills with your embrace?<br>You didn't realize you were beguiled,<br>I barely thought you could have been my child.<br>The crazy love, with its ironic smile<br>Two strangers brings together for a while,<br>And makes their age seem equal on the spot <br>O, slender woman, passionate and hot.<br>You're young, and haughty, and extremely fair,<br>You want me badly and you do not care<br>That both your folks and mine will lose their peace<br>And sacrifice them all to your caprice. <br>You wanted to get out of your white lace<br>And in my heart my verses to replace. <br>Intoxicated by the love's sweet charms<br>You wanted to stay always in my arms,<br>Forgetting the old custom just and true,<br>Because you craved a thing which was taboo. <br>I made you suffer, yes, I am aware,<br>Despising your affection and your care,<br>I always feigned I didn't get it right<br>To save your soul, and to remain upright,<br>And I offended you, please don't be mad,<br>But you may curse me if I made you sad,<br>From far away, where you conceal your eyes<br>With tears in them, and your good-looking thighs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tudor+Arghezi">Tudor Arghezi</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=589876" data-title="Belated love [Dragoste târzie] de Tudor Arghezi" data-description="Whether I loved you as you love, I think /My heart would whisper yes, my mind would shrink./You thought the flood would take away my ark/And I'd be set on fire by your spark. /Where did you come from with that pretty face,/To bring me stars and th..."></div> </div> </div>

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