A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse and ...
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Musing on the fate of Daphne,Many feelings urged my breast,For the God so keen desiring,And the Nymph so deep distrest.Never ...
And—'Yonder look! yoho! yoho! Nancy is off!' the farmer cried, Advancing by the river side, Red-kerchieft and brown-coated;—'So, My girl, ...
I The old grey mother she thrummed on her knee: There is a rose that's ready; And which of the ...
1--IWhen the South sang like a nightingaleAbove a bower in May,The training of Love's vine of flameWas writ in laws, ...
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
IWith love exceeding a simple love of the thingsThat glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck;Or change their perch ...
I know him, February's thrush,And loud at eve he valentinesOn sprays that paw the naked bushWhere soon will sprout the ...
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
A dove flew with an Olive Branch; It crossed the sea and reached the shore, And on a ship about ...
I The spirit of Romance dies not to those Who hold a kindred spirit in their souls: Even as the ...
With splendour of a silver day,A frosted night had opened May:And on that plumed and armoured night,As one close temple ...
Carols nature, counsel men.Different notes as rook from wrenHear we when our steps begin,And the choice is cast within,Where a ...
A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage ...
Now the frog, all lean and weak, Yawning from his famished sleep, Water in the ditch doth seek, Fast as ...
The daisy now is out upon the green; And in the grassy lanes The child of April rains, The sweet ...
Merrily 'mid the faded leaves, O Robin of the bright red breast! Cheerily over the Autumn eaves, Thy note is ...
High climbs June's wild rose,Her bush all blooms in a swarm;And swift from the bud she blows,In a day when ...
So he, with a clear shout of laughter,Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, ...
There were three maidens met on the highway; The sun was down, the night was late: And two sang loud ...
Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor begHonours from aught about thee. Light the young.Thy frame is as a ...
They then to fountain-abundant Ida, mother of wild beasts,Came, and they first left ocean to fare ...
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