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]

A READING OF LIFE

THE VITAL CHOICE

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