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 ...
George Meredith Poems on Mind (67 Poems)
The Head Of Bran The Blest (George Meredith Poems)
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
Solon (George Meredith Poems)
IThe Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eyeOn the great man of Athens, whom for foeHe knew, than on the ...
The Wild Rose And The Snowdrop (George Meredith Poems)
The Snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers; It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; And like a ...
The Night-Walk (George Meredith Poems)
Awakes for me and leaps from shroudAll radiantly the moon's own nightOf folded showers in streamer cloud;Our shadows down the ...
The Century Of Garibaldi (George Meredith Poems)
We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and nowLike a ripe field ...
Shemselnihar (George Meredith Poems)
O my lover! the night like a broad smooth wave Bears us onward, and morn, a black rock, shines wet. ...
Ireland (George Meredith Poems)
Fire in her ashes Ireland feelsAnd in her veins a glow of heat.To her the lost old time, appealsFor resurrection, ...
Milton–December 9, 1608: December 9, 1908 (George Meredith Poems)
What splendour of imperial station man,The Tree of Life, may reach when, rooted fast,His branching stem points way to upper ...
The Crisis (George Meredith Poems)
Spirit of Russia, now has comeThe day when thou canst not be dumb.Around thee foams the torrent tide,Above thee its ...
The Hueless Love (George Meredith Poems)
Unto that love must we through fire attain,Which those two held as breath of common air;The hands of whom were ...
Outer And Inner (George Meredith Poems)
IFrom twig to twig the spider weavesAt noon his webbing fine.So near to mute the zephyrs fluteThat only leaflets dance.The ...
The Years Had Worn Their Season’s Belt (George Meredith Poems)
The years had worn their seasons' belt,From bud to rosy prime,Since Nellie by the larch-pole kneltAnd helped the hop to ...
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 ...
Fragments (George Meredith Poems)
Open horizons round,O mounting mind, to scenes unsung,Wherein shall walk a lusty Time:Our Earth is young;Of measure without bound;Infinite are ...
Nature And Life (George Meredith Poems)
ILeave the uproar: at a leapThou shalt strike a woodland path,Enter silence, not of sleep,Under shadows, not of wrath;Breath which ...
The Discipline Of Wisdom (George Meredith Poems)
Rich labour is the struggle to be wise,While we make sure the struggle cannot cease.Else better were it in some ...
The Wisdom Of Eld (George Meredith Poems)
We spend our lives in learning pilotage,And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank!Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering ...
Earth’s Secret (George Meredith Poems)
Not solitarily in fields we findEarth's secret open, though one page is there;Her plainest, such as children spell, and shareWith ...
Song (Untitled #3) (George Meredith Poems)
Fair and false! No dawn will greet Thy waking beauty as of old; The little flower beneath thy feet Is ...
Sense And Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
The senses loving Earth or well or illRavel yet more the riddle of our lot.The mind is in their trammels, ...
Society (George Meredith Poems)
Historic be the survey of our kind,And how their brave Society took shape.Lion, wolf, vulture, fox, jackal and ape,The strong ...
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 ...
Manfred (George Meredith Poems)
IProjected from the bilious Childe,This clatterjaw his foot could setOn Alps, without a breast beguiledTo glow in shedding rascal sweat.Somewhere ...
Continued (George Meredith Poems)
How smiles he at a generation rankedIn gloomy noddings over life! They pass.Not he to feed upon a breast unthanked,Or ...
Modern Love XIV: What Soul Would Bargain (George Meredith Poems)
What soul would bargain for a cure that brings Contempt the nobler agony to kill? Rather let me bear on ...
Modern Love XLII: I Am to Follow Her (George Meredith Poems)
I am to follow her. There is much grace In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. They think that dignity ...
Modern Love XLVIII: Their Sense (George Meredith Poems)
Their sense is with their senses all mixed in, Destroyed by subleties these women are! More brain, O Lord, more ...
Modern Love XVIII: Here Jack and Tom (George Meredith Poems)
Here Jack and Tom are paired with Moll and Meg. Curved open to the river-reach is seen A country merry-making ...
Modern Love XXVII: Distraction is the Panacea (George Meredith Poems)
Distraction is the panacea, Sir! I hear my oracle of Medicine say. Doctor! that same specific yesterday I tried, and ...