The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot by van den Broek Antonie Gerard; Baker William;

The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot by van den Broek Antonie Gerard; Baker William;

Author:van den Broek, Antonie Gerard; Baker, William;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


A College Breakfast-Party

Young Hamlet, not the hesitating Dane,

But one named after him,1a who lately strove

For honours at our English Wittenberg,2 –

Blond, metaphysical,b and sensuous,

Questioning all things and yet half convinced

Credulity were better; held inert

’Twixt fascinations of all opposites,c

And half suspecting that the mightiest soul

(Perhaps his own?) was union of extremes,

Having no choice but choice of everything:

As, drinking deep to-day for love of wine,

To-morrowd half a Brahmin,3 scorning life

As mere illusion, yearning for that True

Which has no qualities; another day

Finding the fount of grace in sacraments,

And purest reflex of the light divine

In gem-bossed pyx and broidered chasuble,

Resolved to wear no stockings and to fast

With arms extended, waiting ecstasy;

But gettinge cramps instead,f and needing change,

A would-be pagang next: –

Young Hamlet sat

A guest with five of somewhat riper age

At breakfast with Horatio, a friend

Withh few opinions, but of faithful heart,

Quick to detect the fibrous spreading roots

Of character that feed men’s theories,

Yet cloaking weaknesses with charity

And ready in all service save rebuke.a



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