George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
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.
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!
desires fain fling love
Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.
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.
fighting past men
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
care mute
O have a care of natures that are mute!
casts picks gems
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
army law track
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
men two topsy-turvy
I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.