<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Love XXVIII: I Must Be Flattered</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must be flattered. The imperious <br>Desire speaks out. Lady, I am content <br>To play with you the game of Sentiment, <br>And with you enter on paths perilous; <br>But if across your beauty I throw light, <br>To make it threefold, it must be all mine. <br>First secret; then avowed. For I must shine <br>Envied,--I, lessened in my proper sight! <br>Be watchful of your beauty, Lady dear! <br>How much hangs on that lamp you cannot tell. <br>Most earnestly I pray you, tend it well: <br>And men shall see me as a burning sphere; <br>And men shall mark you eyeing me, and groan <br>To be the God of such a grand sunflower! <br>I feel the promptings of Satanic power, <br>While you do homage unto me alone.</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=396816" data-title="Modern Love XXVIII: I Must Be Flattered de George Meredith" data-description="I must be flattered. The imperious Desire speaks out. Lady, I am content To play with you the game of Sentiment, And with you enter on paths perilous; But if across your beauty I throw light, To make it threefold, it must be all mine. First ..."></div> </div> </div>

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