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 ...
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Young nursling of the Spring and southern mind!Thou comest like tenderness fostered by neglect, Or like new hope within a ...
Begotten by the meeting of rock with rock, The mating of rock and rock, rocks gnashing together; Created so, and ...
One time, 'way back where the year marks fadeGod said: "I see I must lose my West,The place where I've ...
Rachel, the beautiful (as she was called),Despised our mother Leah, for that she Was tender-ey'd, lean-favor'd, and did lack The ...
Now all the flowers that ornament the grass,Wherever meadows are and placid brooks,Must fall—the "glory of the grass" must fall.Year ...
(_The Cry of the Modern_) World-sorrow have I known, like unto God. Nothing there is of pain but echoes down ...
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Dew on her robe and on her tangled hair; Twin dewdrops for her eyes; behold her pass, With ...
The dun sand-cliffs that break the desert's seaRose suddenly upon my sight at dawn,And terrible in an eternityOf death took ...
Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen Sleep in their blue yoke, The fields having been ...
Dry in the forest before the first snowfall the leaves of autumn heavy on the ground The barrenness of November ...
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
What! and not one to heave the pious sigh! Not one whose sorrow-swoln and aching eye For social scenes, for ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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