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 Thought & Thinking (31 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 ...
Archduchess Anne (George Meredith Poems)
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...