<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396938" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Teaching Of The Nude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A satyr spied a Goddess in her bath,<br>Unseen of her attendant nymphs; none knew.<br>Forthwith the creature to his fellows drew,<br>And looking backward on the curtained path,<br>He strove to tell; he could but heave a breast<br>Too full, and point to mouth, with failing leers:<br>Vainly he danced for speech, he giggled tears,<br>Made as if torn in two, as if tight pressed,<br>As if cast prone; then fetching whimpered tunes<br>For words, flung heel and set his hairy flight<br>Through forest-hollows, over rocky height.<br>The green leaves buried him three rounds of moons.<br>A senatorial Satyr named what herb<br>Had hurried him outrunning reason's curb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis told how when that hieaway unchecked<br>To dell returned, he seemed of tempered mood:<br>Even as the valley of the torrent rude,<br>The torrent now a brook, the valley wrecked.<br>In him, to hale him high or hurl aheap,<br>Goddess and Goatfoot hourly wrestled sore;<br>Hourly the immortal prevailing more:<br>Till one hot noon saw Meliboeus peep<br>From thicket-sprays to where his full-blown dame,<br>In circle by the lusty friskers gripped,<br>Laughed the showered rose-leaves while her limbs were stripped.<br>She beckoned to our Satyr, and he came.<br>Then twirled she mounds of ripeness, wreath of arms.<br>His hoof kicked up the clothing for such charms.</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=396938" data-title="The Teaching Of The Nude de George Meredith" data-description="I A satyr spied a Goddess in her bath, Unseen of her attendant nymphs; none knew. Forthwith the creature to his fellows drew, And looking backward on the curtained path, He strove to tell; he could but heave a breast Too full, and point to mouth,..."></div> </div> </div>

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