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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FREE WILL, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear are some hidden things Last Line: How weep, how hope? Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Free Will And Determinism; Meredith, George (1828-1909); Novels & Novelists | |||
DEAR are some hidden things My soul has sealed in silence; past delights; Hope unconfessed; desires with hampered wings, Remembered in the nights. But my best treasures are Ignoble, undelightful, abject, cold; Yet O! profounder hoards oracular No reliquaries hold. There lie my trespasses, Abjured but not disowned. I'll not accuse Determinism, nor, as the Master says, Charge even "the poor Deuce." Under my hand they lie, My very own, my proved iniquities; And though the glory of my life go by I hold and garner these. How else, how otherwhere, How otherwise, shall I discern and grope For lowliness? How hate, how love, how dare, How weep, how hope? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN CONDENSED NOVEL by MAXWELL BODENHEIM ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER by EDWARD HIRSCH APOSTROPHE (IN MEMORY OF DONALD BARTHELME, 1931-1989) by EDWARD HIRSCH ON LOVE: GEORGE MEREDITH by EDWARD HIRSCH MARCHING THROUGH A NOVEL by JOHN UPDIKE TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES' by JOHN UPDIKE I AM THE WAY' by ALICE MEYNELL |
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