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IN HER PRAISE - Robert Graves
Title: IN HER PRAISE - Robert Graves
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 602 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
IN HER PRAISE - Robert Graves
In Her Praise
-by Robert Graves
This they know well: The Goddess yet abides.
Though each new lovely woman whom she rides,
Straddling her neck for a year or two or three
Should sink beneath such weight of majesty
And, groping back to humankind, gainsay
The headlong power that whitened all her way
With a broad track of trefoil - leaving you,
Her chosen lover, ever again thrust through
With daggers, your purse rifled, your rings …showed first 75 words of 602 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 602 total…she should never fear, for she will always have a place in heaven. Here,
heaven is characterized in the form of the “oracular dead,” and the “moon.”
...Woman is mortal woman. She abides.
She was once a Goddess, now a “mortal woman.” She was once in a blissful
heaven, now in our world today. The use of the word “abides” portrays in the
readers mind that she is beneath heaven - where she truly belongs.
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