<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507185" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The White Goddess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All saints revile her, and all sober men<br>Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean -<br>In scorn of which we sailed to find her<br>In distant regions likeliest to hold her<br>Whom we desired above all things to know,<br>Sister of the mirage and echo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a virtue not to stay,<br>To go our headstrong and heroic way<br>Seeking her out at the volcano's head,<br>Among pack ice, or where the track had faded<br>Beyond the cavern of the seven sleepers:<br>Whose broad high brow was white as any leper's,<br>Whose eyes were blue, with rowan-berry lips,<br>With hair curled honey-coloured to white hips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir<br>Will celebrate with green the Mother,<br>And every song-bird shout awhile for her;<br>But we are gifted, even in November<br>Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense<br>Of her nakedly worn magnificence<br>We forget cruelty and past betrayal,<br>Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507185" data-title="The White Goddess de Robert Graves" data-description="All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean - In scorn of which we sailed to find her In distant regions likeliest to hold her Whom we desired above all things to know, Sister of the mirage and echo. It was a vi..."></div> </div> </div>

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