Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynellwas an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 September 1847
father sake results
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
gay childhood made
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...
spring autumn clouds
Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
betrayal color broken
Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.
spring wind sky
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...
flower should-have feet
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.
simple looks sides
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?
laughter sense-of-humor things-to-do
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
nature moon apples
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.
nature men easy
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
sleep white sheep
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
life distance men
If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.
years heartache childhood
In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.
sunshine light illumination
We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.