George Meredith

Poems (7)

• Love in the Valley

  Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, / Couch'd with her arms behind her golden head, …

• Love's Grave

  Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like, / Its skeleton shadow on the broad-back'd wave! …

• Lucifer in Starlight

  On a starr'd night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend …

• Phoebus with Admetus

  When by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, / Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, …

• Tardy Spring

  now the North wind ceases, / The warm South-west awakes; …

• The Family Skeleton

  From “Modern Love” / AT dinner she is hostess, I am host. …

• The Lark Ascending

  He rises and begins to round, / He drops the silver chain of sound …