The Poetry and Philosophy of George MeredithA. Constable, Limited, 1906 - 234 Seiten |
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Aphrodite Attila beauty blood brain breast breath Callistes chap civilisation Comedy comes Comic Spirit dark Daughter of Hades dawn death Demeter Earth in Autumn Empedocles Empty Purse Enna ethical evolution eyes fair Faith feel flower France George Meredith give happiness haunted hear heart heaven heavenly lover human Hymn to Colour idea imagination intellectual Lady Lark Ascending laughter laws light lines live look Lord lyre lyrical Matthew Arnold means memory metaphor mind Modern Love moods morning Mother nature never night novels numbers obscurity Odes passage passion Persephone philosophy phrase poem poet poetical prayer race reader Richard Feverel Richard Jefferies rippled river Sandra Belloni says sense shadow Shaving of Shagpat sometimes song sonnet soul Spirit of Earth spring star strength Test of Manhood things thou thought Valley verse voice wave whitebeam wings women woodland Woods of Westermain words youth
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Seite 151 - No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Seite 114 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Seite 154 - DIRGE IN WOODS A WIND sways the pines, And below Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there. The pine-tree drops its dead ; They are quiet, as under the sea.
Seite 62 - On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose.
Seite 36 - All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose; Up lanes, woods through, they troop in joyful bands. My sweet leads : she knows not why, but now she loiters, Eyes the bent anemones, and hangs her hands.
Seite 46 - Watching to catch the languid close Of the last strain, then lifts on high The wings of the weak melody, Till some new strain of feeling bear o The.
Seite 144 - THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN ENTER these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.
Seite 40 - Clipped by naked hills, on violet shaded snow : Eastward large and still lights up a bower of moonrise, Whence at her leisure steps the moon aglow. Nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness : nightlong could I. Here may life on death or death on life be painted. Let me clasp her soul to know she cannot die ! Gossips count her faults ; they scour a narrow chamber Where there is no window, read not heaven or her. ' When she was a tiny,' one aged woman quavers, Plucks...
Seite 141 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Seite 32 - We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to look back on summer joys, Or forward to a summer of bright dye : But in the largeness of the evening earth Our spirits grew as we went side by side. The hour became her husband and my bride.