Author: George Meredith

My Lady unto Madam makes her bow. The charm of women is, that even while You’re probed by them for […]

This was the woman; what now of the man? But pass him. If he comes beneath a heel, He shall […]

It ended, and the morrow brought the task. Her eyes were guilty gates, that let him in By shutting all […]

We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn; My friend being third. He who at love once laughed, Is in the […]

It is no vulgar nature I have wived. Secretive, sensitive, she takes a wound Deep to her soul, as if […]

Thus piteously Love closed what he begat: The union of this ever-diverse pair! These two were rapid falcons in a […]

They say, that Pity in Love’s service dwells, A porter at the rosy temple’s gate. I missed him going: but […]

Give to imagination some pure light In human form to fix it, or you shame The devils with that hideous […]

Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee Hums by us with the honey of the Spring, And showers of […]

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up becomes a gem! We grasp […]

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in […]

Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to […]

What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of […]

What soul would bargain for a cure that brings Contempt the nobler agony to kill? Rather let me bear on […]

I must be flattered. The imperious Desire speaks out. Lady, I am content To play with you the game of […]

At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the […]

No state is enviable. To the luck alone Of some few favoured men I would put claim. I bleed, but […]

‘Tis Christmas weather, and a country house Receives us: rooms are full: we can but get An attic-crib. Such lovers […]

I think she sleeps: it must be sleep, when low Hangs that abandoned arm toward the floor; The face turned […]

Am I failing? For no longer can I cast A glory round about this head of gold. Glory she wears, […]

Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: By the old hedge-side we’ll halt a stage. It’s nigh my […]

I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet […]

I am to follow her. There is much grace In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. They think that dignity […]

She yields: my Lady in her noblest mood Has yielded: she, my golden-crownèd rose! The bride of every sense! more […]

Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive Leap off the rim of earth across the dome. It is […]

We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to […]

What links are ours with orbs that are So resolutely far: The solitary asks, and they Give radiance as from […]

WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who […]

A message from her set his brain aflame. A world of household matters filled her mind, Wherein he saw hypocrisy […]

Full faith I have she holds that rarest gift To beauty, Common Sense. To see her lie With her fair […]