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 ...
George Meredith Poems on Sense & Perception (67 Poems)
A Garden Idyl (George Meredith Poems)
With sagest craft Arachne workedHer web, and at a corner lurked,Awaiting what should plump her soon,To case it in the ...
A Stave Of Roving Tim (George Meredith Poems)
(ADDRESSED TO CERTAIN FRIENDLY TRAMPS.)IThe wind is East, the wind is West,Blows in and out of haven;The wind that blows ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invitation To The Country (George Meredith Poems)
Now 'tis Spring on wood and wold, Early Spring that shivers with cold, But gladdens, and gathers, day by day, ...
Il Y A Cent Ans (George Meredith Poems)
That march of the funereal Past behold;How Glory sat on Bondage for its throne;How men, like dazzled insects, through the ...
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 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 ...
The Labourer (George Meredith Poems)
For a Heracles in his fighting ire there is never the glory thatfollowsWhen ashen he lies and the poets arise ...
Unknown Fair Faces (George Meredith Poems)
Though I am faithful to my loves lived through, And place them among Memory's great stars, Where burns a face ...
To A Friend Lost (Tom Taylor) (George Meredith Poems)
When I remember, friend, whom lost I call,Because a man beloved is taken hence,The tender humour and the fire of ...
To Cardinal Manning (George Meredith Poems)
I, wakeful for the skylark voice in men,Or straining for the angel of the light,Rebuked am I by hungry ear ...
Continued – II (George Meredith Poems)
Oracle of the market! thence you drewThe taste which stamped you guide of the inept. -A North-sea pilot, Hildebrand yclept,A ...
Grace And Love (George Meredith Poems)
Two flower-enfolding crystal vases sheI love fills daily, mindful but of one:And close behind pale morn she, like the sunPriming ...
Whimper Of Sympathy (George Meredith Poems)
Hawk or shrike has done this deedOf downy feathers: rueful sight!Sweet sentimentalist, inviteYour bosom's Power to intercede.So hard it seems ...
Hernani (George Meredith Poems)
Cistercians might crack their sidesWith laughter, and exemption get,At sight of heroes clasping brides,And hearing--O the horn! the horn!The horn ...
The Lesson of Grief (George Meredith Poems)
Not ere the bitter herb we taste,Which ages thought of happy times,To plant us in a weeping waste,Rings with our ...
Modern Love XXIV: The Misery Is Greater (George Meredith Poems)
The misery is greater, as I live! To know her flesh so pure, so keen her sense, That she does ...
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 XXXI: This Golden Head (George Meredith Poems)
This golden head has wit in it. I live Again, and a far higher life, near her. Some women like ...
Modern Love XXXII: Full Faith I Have (George Meredith Poems)
Full faith I have she holds that rarest gift To beauty, Common Sense. To see her lie With her fair ...
Modern Love XXXIV: Madam Would Speak With Me (George Meredith Poems)
Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes: The Deluge or else Fire! She's well, she thanks My husbandship. ...
Modern Love XXXIX: She Yields (George Meredith Poems)
She yields: my Lady in her noblest mood Has yielded: she, my golden-crownèd rose! The bride of every sense! more ...
Modern Love XXXV: It Is No Vulgar Nature (George Meredith Poems)
It is no vulgar nature I have wived. Secretive, sensitive, she takes a wound Deep to her soul, as if ...
Modern Love: XVI (George Meredith Poems)
In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour, When in the firelight steadily aglow, Joined slackly, we beheld the ...
Modern Love: XXXIV (George Meredith Poems)
Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes: The Deluge or else Fire! She's well, she thanks My husbandship. ...