George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
desires fain fling love
Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.
catch glory hard love whom winning
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, / Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
enter
Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.
dark dominion night prince swung tired
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
arms behind golden knees lies love ripple single sleeping slip
Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, / Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.
beauty witty treasure
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
soul suffering may
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
prayer men praying-to-god
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
being-yourself being-single betrayed
We are betrayed by what is false within
small-changes silence speech
Speech is the small change of silence.
pay debt hardest
The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.
intellectual cynicism dandyism
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
casts picks gems
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us.