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!
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.
love winning conquer
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
love-is imagination disaster
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
love carnivals egoism
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
love jealousy burning
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
love law hard-life
Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
love dream young
Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
enter
Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.
eden sweet
Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.
civilized english-novelist
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
suffers
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
birthday
Don't just count your years, make your years count.