<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540785" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, <br>Green as a bough of yew the beard; <br>He bent his head, and so I smote; <br>Then for a thought my vision cleared. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The head dropped clean; he rose and walked; <br>He fixed his fingers in the hair; <br>The head was unabashed and talked; <br>I understood what I must dare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His flesh, cut down, arose and grew. <br>He bade me wait the season’s round, <br>And then, when he had strength anew, <br>To meet him on his native ground. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The year declined; and in his keep <br>I passed in joy a thriving yule; <br>And whether waking or in sleep, <br>I lived in riot like a fool. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He beat the woods to bring me meat. <br>His lady, like a forest vine, <br>Grew in my arms; the growth was sweet; <br>And yet what thoughtless force was mine! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By practice and conviction formed, <br>With ancient stubbornness ingrained, <br>Although her body clung and swarmed, <br>My own identity remained. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her beauty, lithe, unholy, pure, <br>Took shapes that I had never known; <br>And had I once been insecure, <br>Had grafted laurel in my bone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, since I had kept the trust, <br>Had loved the lady, yet was true, <br>The knight withheld his giant thrust <br>And let me go with what I knew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I left the green bark and the shade, <br>Where growth was rapid, thick, and still; <br>I found a road that men had made <br>And rested on a drying hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yvor+Winters">Yvor Winters</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=540785" data-title="Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight de Yvor Winters" data-description="Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote; Then for a thought my vision cleared. The head dropped clean; he rose and walked; He fixed his fingers in the hair; The head was unaba..."></div> </div> </div>

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