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
covered explicit implicit life living modest true
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
doors draw memories near
Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep.
time bells towers
From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.
echoes bird utterance
With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
loneliness ocean sea
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.
next-week years mind
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. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
mirrors glances
... no mirror keeps its glances ...
father sake results
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
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 ...
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.