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 Secrets (25 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
Jump-To-Glory Jane (George Meredith Poems)
IA revelation came on Jane,The widow of a labouring swain:And first her body trembled sharp,Then all the woman was a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Night Of Frost In May (George Meredith Poems)
With splendour of a silver day,A frosted night had opened May:And on that plumed and armoured night,As one close temple ...
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 Two Blackbirds (George Meredith Poems)
A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage ...
Love in the Valley (George Meredith Poems)
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
Meditation under Stars (George Meredith Poems)
What links are ours with orbs that are So resolutely far: The solitary asks, and they Give radiance as from ...
Modern Love II: It Ended, and the Morrow (George Meredith Poems)
It ended, and the morrow brought the task. Her eyes were guilty gates, that let him in By shutting all ...
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 XXVIII: I Must Be Flattered (George Meredith Poems)
I must be flattered. The imperious Desire speaks out. Lady, I am content To play with you the game of ...
Modern Love: II (George Meredith Poems)
It ended, and the morrow brought the task. Her eyes were guilty gates, that let him in By shutting all ...