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 God (58 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 Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Archduchess Anne (George Meredith Poems)
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse and ...
France–December 1870 (George Meredith Poems)
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
Foresight And Patience (George Meredith Poems)
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,Are they who point our pathway and sustain.They rarely meet; one soars, one ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Cageing Of Ares (George Meredith Poems)
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughedAt sight of her ...
The Doe: A Fragment (From Wandering Willie) (George Meredith Poems)
And—'Yonder look! yoho! yoho! Nancy is off!' the farmer cried, Advancing by the river side, Red-kerchieft and brown-coated;—'So, My girl, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Melampus (George Meredith Poems)
IWith love exceeding a simple love of the thingsThat glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck;Or change their perch ...
Lines To A Friend Visiting America (George Meredith Poems)
INow farewell to you! you areOne of my dearest, whom I trust:Now follow you the Western star,And cast the old ...
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 Appeasement Of Demeter (George Meredith Poems)
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
London By Lamplight (George Meredith Poems)
There stands a singer in the street, He has an audience motley and meet; Above him lowers the London night, ...
The South-Wester (George Meredith Poems)
Day of the cloud in fleets! O dayOf wedded white and blue, that sailImmingled, with a footing rayIn shadow-sandals down ...
The Song Of Theodolinda (George Meredith Poems)
IQueen Theodolind has builtIn the earth a furnace-bed:There the Traitor Nail that spiltBlood of the anointed Head,Red of heat, resolves ...
Hymn To Colour (George Meredith Poems)
IWith Life and Death I walked when Love appeared,And made them on each side a shadow seem.Through wooded vales the ...
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. ...
Antigone (George Meredith Poems)
The buried voice bespake Antigone.'O sister! couldst thou know, as thou wilt know,The bliss above, the reverence below,Enkindled by thy ...