Poets/George Meredith

George Meredith

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A wind sways the pines, …

George Meredith

Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: …

George Meredith

Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, …

George Meredith

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. …

George Meredith

What links are ours with orbs that are …

George Meredith

What are we first? First, animals; and next …

George Meredith

By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: …

George Meredith

It ended, and the morrow brought the task. …

George Meredith

He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles …

George Meredith

Thus piteously Love closed what he begat: …

George Meredith

Yet it was plain she struggled, and that salt …

George Meredith

What soul would bargain for a cure that brings …

George Meredith

He found her by the ocean’s moaning verge, …

George Meredith

At last we parley: we so strangely dumb …

George Meredith

Their sense is with their senses all mixed in, …

George Meredith

In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour, …

George Meredith

I am not of those miserable males …

George Meredith

What may the woman labour to confess? …

George Meredith

Love ere he bleeds, an eagle in high skies, …

George Meredith

Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes: …

George Meredith

They have no song, the sedges dry, …

George Meredith

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