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 Home (26 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earth And Man (George Meredith Poems)
IOn her great venture, Man,Earth gazes while her fingers dint the breastWhich is his well of strength, his home of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aneurin’s Harp (George Meredith Poems)
IPrince of Bards was old Aneurin;He the grand Gododin sang;All his numbers threw such fire in,Struck his harp so wild ...
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 ...
Forest History (George Meredith Poems)
I.Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.Heroic who came out; for round them hungA wavering phantom's red volcano ...
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. ...
To Children: For Tyrants (George Meredith Poems)
IStrike not thy dog with a stick!I did it yesterday:Not to undo though I gainedThe Paradise: heavy it rainedOn Kobold's ...
The Call (George Meredith Poems)
Under what spell are we debasedBy fears for our inviolate Isle,Whose record is of dangers facedAnd flung to heel with ...
Earth And The Wedded Woman (George Meredith Poems)
IThe shepherd, with his eye on hazy South,Has told of rain upon the fall of day.But promise is there none ...
Beauty Rothraut (From Moricke) (George Meredith Poems)
What is the name of King Ringang's daughter?Rohtraut, Beauty Rohtraut!And what does she do the livelong day,Since she dare not ...
England Before The Storm (George Meredith Poems)
IThe day that is the night of days,With cannon-fire for sun ablazeWe spy from any billow's lift;And England still this ...
Penetration And Trust (George Meredith Poems)
ISleek as a lizard at round of a stone,The look of her heart slipped out and in.Sweet on her lord ...
The Promise In Disturbance (George Meredith Poems)
How low when angels fall their black descent, Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain Of music, that nigh ...
The Emperor Frederick Of Our Time (George Meredith Poems)
With Alfred and St. Louis he doth winGrander than crowned head's mortuary dome:His gentle heroic manhood enters inThe ever-flowering common ...