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 Nature (62 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 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 ...
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 ...
A Ballad Of Fair Ladies In Revolt (George Meredith Poems)
ISee the sweet women, friend, that lean beneathThe ever-falling fountain of green leavesRound the white bending stem, and like a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Young Princess — A Ballad Of Old Laws Of Love (George Meredith Poems)
1--IWhen the South sang like a nightingaleAbove a bower in May,The training of Love's vine of flameWas writ in laws, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Thrush In February (George Meredith Poems)
I know him, February's thrush,And loud at eve he valentinesOn sprays that paw the naked bushWhere soon will sprout the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Pictures Of The Rhine (George Meredith Poems)
I The spirit of Romance dies not to those Who hold a kindred spirit in their souls: Even as the ...
A Preaching From A Spanish Ballad (George Meredith Poems)
ILadies who in chains of wedlockChafe at an unequal yoke,Not to nightingales give hearing;Better this, the raven's croak.IIDown the Prado ...
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 ...
Poetry (George Meredith Poems)
THE POETRY OF CHAUCER Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard ...
The Orchard And The Heath (George Meredith Poems)
I chanced upon an early walk to spyA troop of children through an orchard gate:The boughs hung low, the grass ...