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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EMPEDOCLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder
Last Line: If heels in air the last of him!
Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks
First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder
Last Line: If heels in air the last of him!
Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks
I
HE leaped. With none to hinder,
Of Aetna's fiery scoriae
In the next vomit-shower, made he
A more peculiar cinder.
And this great Doctor, can it be,
He left no saner recipe
For men at issue with despair?
Admiring, even his poet owns,
While noting his fine lyric tones,
The last of him was heels in air!
II
Comes Reverence, her features
Amazed to see high Wisdom hear,
With glimmer of a faunish leer,
One mock her pride of creatures.
Shall such sad incident degrade
A stature casting sunniest shade?
O Reverence! let Reason swim;
Each life its critic deed reveals;
And him reads Reason at his heels,
If heels in air the last of him!
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