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THE YOUNG USURPER by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: ON MY DARLING'S BOSOM
Last Line: TO CLAIM IT FOR HIS OWN.
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - NATURE OF;
ON my darling's bosom
Has dropped a living rosy bud,
Fair as brilliant Hesper
Against the brimming flood.
She handles him,
She dandles him,
She fondles him and eyes him:
And if upon a tear he wakes,
With many a kiss she dries him:
She covets every move he makes,
And never enough can prize him.
Ah, the young Usurper!
I yield my golden throne:
Such angel bands attend his hands
To claim it for his own.



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