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How Lisa Loved the King
George Eliot
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p. 13Of kinship to her generous mother-earth,
The fervid land that gives the plumy palm-trees birth.
She saw not Perdicone; her young mind
Dreamed not that any man had ever pined
For such a little simple maid as she:
She had but dreamed how heavenly it would be
To love some hero noble, beauteous, great,
Who would live stories worthy to narrate,
Like Roland, or the warriors of Troy,
The Cid, or Amadis, or that fair boy
Who conquered every thing beneath the sun,
And somehow, some time, died at Babylon
Fighting the Moors. For heroes all were good
And fair as that archangel who withstood
The Evil One, the author of all wrong,—
That Evil One who made the French so strong;
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14And now the flower of heroes must he be
Who drove those tyrants from dear Sicily,
So that her maids might walk to vespers tranquilly.
Young Lisa saw this hero in the king;
And as wood-lilies that sweet odors brin. . . Read More
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Really sweet story, and for another rare instance, told sweetly by George Eliot, whose lines flow much better than her norm.
"Six hundred years ago, in Dante’s time,
"Before his cheek was furrowed by deep rhyme;
"When Europe, fed afresh from Eastern story,
"Was like a garden tangled with the glory
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I've often found narrative poems to have a strange place with me. I love them but, as with this one, I get tired of them easily. How Lisa Loved the King is both beautiful in its execution and tedious for that same reason. What could have been told in a shorter, yet still beautiful, prose story becom
A thoroughly charming twenty or so page narrative poem supposedly culled from Boccaccio (I've read The Decameron but cannot remember this tale out of the hundred that work contains). Set in Sicily of the pre-Renaissance, late medieval era of courtly love, it tells a story replete with heartfelt long
I would not have ordered this if I had know it was a long poem. Still I read it and Eliot wrote a lovely poem. One would have to really enjoy reading a fantasy about a young girl and a king to stick with it.
You HAVE to read George Eliot if you like Bronte, Hardy, or Austen.