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 ...
George Meredith Poems on Joy & Excitement (39 Poems)
The Day Of The Daughter Of Hades (George Meredith Poems)
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Shipwreck Of Idomeneus (George Meredith Poems)
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
The Nuptials Of Attila (George Meredith Poems)
IFlat as to an eagle's eye,Earth hung under Attila.Sign for carnage gave he none.In the peace of his disdain,Sun and ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
Daphne (George Meredith Poems)
Musing on the fate of Daphne,Many feelings urged my breast,For the God so keen desiring,And the Nymph so deep distrest.Never ...
The Woods Of Westermain (George Meredith Poems)
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
To The Comic Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
A Reading Of Life–With The Persuader (George Meredith Poems)
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
The Revolution (George Meredith Poems)
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
The Cageing Of Ares (George Meredith Poems)
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughedAt sight of her ...
Ode To The Spirit Of The Earth In Autumn (George Meredith Poems)
Fair Mother Earth lay on her back last night, To gaze her fill on Autumn's sunset skies, When at a ...
Jump-To-Glory Jane (George Meredith Poems)
IA revelation came on Jane,The widow of a labouring swain:And first her body trembled sharp,Then all the woman was a ...
Phaethon–Attempted In Galliambic Measure (George Meredith Poems)
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,And with shadows dappled men sing ...
Youth In Memory (George Meredith Poems)
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
A Reading Of Life–The Test Of Manhood (George Meredith Poems)
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
Periander (George Meredith Poems)
IHow died Melissa none dares shape in words.A woman who is wife despotic lordsCount faggot at the question, Shall she ...
The Old Chartist (George Meredith Poems)
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
The Olive Branch (George Meredith Poems)
A dove flew with an Olive Branch; It crossed the sea and reached the shore, And on a ship about ...
Cassandra (George Meredith Poems)
ICaptive on a foreign shore,Far from Ilion's hoary wave,Agamemnon's bridal slaveSpeaks Futurity no more:Death is busy with her grave. ...
A Stave Of Roving Tim (George Meredith Poems)
(ADDRESSED TO CERTAIN FRIENDLY TRAMPS.)IThe wind is East, the wind is West,Blows in and out of haven;The wind that blows ...
A Reading Of Life–With The Huntress (George Meredith Poems)
Through the water-eye of night,Midway between eve and dawn,See the chase, the rout, the flightIn deep forest; oread, faun,Goat-foot, antlers ...
Will O’ The Wisp (George Meredith Poems)
Follow me, follow me, Over brake and under tree, Thro' the bosky tanglery, Brushwood and bramble! Follow me, follow me, ...
The Sweet O’ The Year (George Meredith Poems)
Now the frog, all lean and weak, Yawning from his famished sleep, Water in the ditch doth seek, Fast as ...
The Years Had Worn Their Season’s Belt (George Meredith Poems)
The years had worn their seasons' belt,From bud to rosy prime,Since Nellie by the larch-pole kneltAnd helped the hop to ...
Song (Untitled #11) (George Meredith Poems)
The daisy now is out upon the green; And in the grassy lanes The child of April rains, The sweet ...
Sorrow And Joys (George Meredith Poems)
Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. ...
October 21, 1905 (George Meredith Poems)
The hundred years have passed, and heWhose name appeased a nation's fears,As with a hand laid over sea;To thunder through ...
To A Nightingale (George Meredith Poems)
O nightingale! how hast thou learnt The note of the nested dove? While under thy bower the fern hangs burnt ...