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 ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
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 ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
Musing on the fate of Daphne,Many feelings urged my breast,For the God so keen desiring,And the Nymph so deep distrest.Never ...
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 ...
Fair Mother Earth lay on her back last night, To gaze her fill on Autumn's sunset skies, When at a ...
INow farewell to you! you areOne of my dearest, whom I trust:Now follow you the Western star,And cast the old ...
I Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer, To lie all alone on a ragged heath, Where your nose ...
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 ...
Under what spell are we debasedBy fears for our inviolate Isle,Whose record is of dangers facedAnd flung to heel with ...
The Snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers; It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; And like a ...
IAn English heart, my commandant,A soldier's eye you have, awakeTo right and left; with looks askantOn bulwarks not of adamant,Where ...
We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and nowLike a ripe field ...
That march of the funereal Past behold;How Glory sat on Bondage for its throne;How men, like dazzled insects, through the ...
Merrily 'mid the faded leaves, O Robin of the bright red breast! Cheerily over the Autumn eaves, Thy note is ...
Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lipsTo meet its earthly mate;Heroic love that to its sphere's eclipseCan dare to join ...
O nightingale! how hast thou learnt The note of the nested dove? While under thy bower the fern hangs burnt ...
Rich labour is the struggle to be wise,While we make sure the struggle cannot cease.Else better were it in some ...
I cannot lose thee for a day, But like a bird with restless wing My heart will find thee far ...
No, no, the falling blossom is no sign Of loveliness destroy'd and sorrow mute; The blossom sheds its loveliness divine; ...
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
This was the woman; what now of the man? But pass him. If he comes beneath a heel, He shall ...
She issues radiant from her dressing-room, Like one prepared to scale an upper sphere: --By stirring up a lower, much ...
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up becomes a gem! We grasp ...
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