<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Love IX: He Felt the Wild Beast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles <br>So masterfully rude, that he would grieve <br>To see the helpless delicate thing receive <br>His guardianship through certain dark defiles. <br>Had he not teeth to rend, and hunger too? <br>But still he spared her. Once: 'Have you no fear ?' <br>He said: 'twas dusk; she in his grasp; none near. <br>She laughed: 'No, surely; am I not with you?' <br>And uttering that soft starry 'you,' she leaned <br>Her gentle body near him, looking up; <br>And from her eyes, as from a poison-cup, <br>He drank until the flittering eyelids screened. <br>Devilish malignant witch and oh, young beam <br>Of heaven's circle-glory! Here thy shape <br>To squeeze like an intoxicating grape <br>I might, and yet thou goest safe, supreme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396781" data-title="Modern Love IX: He Felt the Wild Beast de George Meredith" data-description="He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles So masterfully rude, that he would grieve To see the helpless delicate thing receive His guardianship through certain dark defiles. Had he not teeth to rend, and hunger too? But still he spared her...."></div> </div> </div>

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