Transcribed from the 1901 Archibald Constable and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
A READING OF LIFE
WITH OTHER POEMS
BY GEORGE MEREDITH
WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO Ltd
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1901
Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| A Reading of Life | |
| The Vital Choice | [1] |
| With the Huntress | [3] |
| With the Persuader | [8] |
| The Test of Manhood | [28] |
| The Cageing of Ares | [45] |
| The Night-Walk | [55] |
| The Hueless Love | [60] |
| Song in the Songless | [63] |
| Union in Disseverance | [64] |
| The Burden of Strength | [65] |
| The Main Regret | [66] |
| Alternation | [68] |
| Hawarden | [69] |
| At the Close | [70] |
| Forest History | [71] |
| A Garden Idyl | [81] |
| Foresight and Patience | [88] |
| Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameters Verse— | |
| The Invective of Achilles | [109] |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, | [112] |
| Marshalling of the Achaians | [114] |
| Agamemnon in the Fight | [117] |
| Paris and Diomedes | [119] |
| Hypnos on Ida | [121] |
| Clash in Arms of the Achaians and Trojans | [122] |
| The Horses of Achilles | [123] |
| The Mares of the Camargue— | |
| From the Mirèio | [126] |