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 ...
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 ...
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse and ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
ISee the sweet women, friend, that lean beneathThe ever-falling fountain of green leavesRound the white bending stem, and like a ...
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 ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughedAt sight of her ...
1--IWhen the South sang like a nightingaleAbove a bower in May,The training of Love's vine of flameWas writ in laws, ...
Fair Mother Earth lay on her back last night, To gaze her fill on Autumn's sunset skies, When at a ...
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
I Within a Temple of the Toes, Where twirled the passionate Wili, I saw full many a market rose, And ...
There stands a singer in the street, He has an audience motley and meet; Above him lowers the London night, ...
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 ...
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
I chanced upon an early walk to spyA troop of children through an orchard gate:The boughs hung low, the grass ...
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 ...
Follow me, follow me, Over brake and under tree, Thro' the bosky tanglery, Brushwood and bramble! Follow me, follow me, ...
So he, with a clear shout of laughter,Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, ...
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell Of human passions, ...
How smiles he at a generation rankedIn gloomy noddings over life! They pass.Not he to feed upon a breast unthanked,Or ...
Cistercians might crack their sidesWith laughter, and exemption get,At sight of heroes clasping brides,And hearing--O the horn! the horn!The horn ...
Love is winged for two,In the worst he weathers,When their hearts are tied;But if they divide,O too true!Cracks a globe, ...
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn; My friend being third. He who at love once laughed, Is in the ...
My Lady unto Madam makes her bow. The charm of women is, that even while You're probed by them for ...
Along the garden terrace, under which A purple valley (lighted at its edge By smoky torch-flame on the long cloud-ledge ...
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