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A Reading of Life
George Meredith
Book Overview:
This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems.
This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems.
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She is great Nature’s ever intimate
In breast, and doth as ready handmaid wait,
Until perverted by her senseless male,
She plays the winding snake, the shrinking snail,
The flying deer, all tricks of evil fame,
Elusive to allure, since he grew tame.
Hence has the Goddess, Nature’s earliest Power,
And greatest
and most present, with her dower
Of the transcendent beauty, gained
repute
For meditated guile. She laughs to hear
A charge
her garden’s labyrinths scarce confute,
Her garden’s
histories tell of to all near.
Let it be said, But less upon her
guile
Doth she rely for her immortal smile.
Still let the
rumour spread, and terror screens
To push her conquests by the
simplest means.
While man abjures not lustihead, nor swerves
From
earth’s good labours, Beauty’s Queen he serves.
Her spaciou. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I found a great many of these poems confusing and struggled to understand what he was saying. Furthermore, I don't really like it when translation snippets are included in poetry collections (like the ones from the Iliad in this book).