Living
A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt: XLVII
From Poems — Volume 2
Living
And shall they make of Beauty their estate,
The fortress and the weapon of their sex?
Shall she in her frost-brilliancy dictate,
More queenly than of old, how we must woo,
Ere she will melt? The halter’s on our necks,
Kick as it likes us, I and you.
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MLA
Meredith, George. “A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt: XLVII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/142/.
Chicago
Meredith, George. “A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt: XLVII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/142/.
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