Poems — Volume 3

Name: Poems — Volume 3
Author: George Meredith

by George Meredith

Pages: about 180
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 3.3 h at 250 wpm

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This Riddle rede or die, THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY, 15
One fairest of the ripe unwedded left ‘LOVE IS WINGED FOR TWO,’ 30 ‘ASK, IS LOVE DIVINE,’ 30 ‘JOY IS FLEET,’ 31 THE LESSON OF GRIEF, 31
Not ere the bitter herb we taste, WIND ON THE LYRE, 32
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank, TO THE COMIC SPIRIT, 56
Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone, NIGHT OF FROST IN MAY, 76
With splendour of a silver day, THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, 79
A Satyr spied a Goddess in her bath, BREATH OF THE BRIAR, 81
For a Heracles in his fighting ire there is never the glory that follows FORESIGHT AND PATIENCE, 89
He leads: we hear our Seaman’s call Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History THE REVOLUTION, 105
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal, A GARDEN IDYL, 179
With sagest craft Arachne worked A Reading of Life THE VITAL CHOICE, 185
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks, THE HUELESS LOVE, 208
Unto that love must we through fire attain, UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, 209
Sunset worn to its last vermilion he; SONG IN THE SONGLESS, 210
They have no song, the sedges dry, THE BURDEN OF STRENGTH, 210
If that thou hast the gift of strength, then know THE MAIN REGRET, 211
Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of omission ALTERNATION, 211
THE wind is East, the wind is West, Blows in and out of haven; The wind that blows is the wind that’s best, And croak, my jolly raven! If here awhile we jigged and laughed, The like we will do yonder; For he’s the man who masters a craft, And light as a lord can wander. So, foot the measure, Roving Tim, And croak, my jolly raven! The wind according to its whim Is in and out of haven.

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