George Meredith Poems

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61.
Modern Love Xxxviii: Give To Imagination

Give to imagination some pure light
In human form to fix it, or you shame
The devils with that hideous human game:
Imagination urging appetite!
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62.
Agamemnon In The Fight

These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest,
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63.
An Orson Of The Muse

Her son, albeit the Muse's livery
And measured courtly paces rouse his taunts,
Naked and hairy in his savage haunts,
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64.
Over The Hills

The old hound wags his shaggy tail,
And I know what he would say:
It's over the hills we'll bound, old hound,
Over the hills, and away.
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65.
A Later Alexandrian

An inspiration caught from dubious hues
Filled him, and mystic wrynesses he chased;
For they lead farther than the single-faced,
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66.
Outer And Inner

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From twig to twig the spider weaves
At noon his webbing fine.
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67.
A Reading Of Life--With The Huntress

Through the water-eye of night,
Midway between eve and dawn,
See the chase, the rout, the flight
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68.
Will O' The Wisp

Follow me, follow me,
Over brake and under tree,
Thro' the bosky tanglery,
Brushwood and bramble!
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69.
Modern Love Vi: It Chanced His Lips Did Meet

It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool.
She had no blush, but slanted down her eye.
Shamed nature, then, confesses love can die:
And most she punishes the tender fool
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70.
The Olive Branch

A dove flew with an Olive Branch;
It crossed the sea and reached the shore,
And on a ship about to launch
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