By Morning Twilight

George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)



Night, like a dying mother,
Eyes her young offspring, Day.
The birds are dreamily piping.
And O, my love, my darling!
The night is life ebb'd away:
Away beyond our reach!
A sea that has cast us pale on the beach;
Weeds with the weeds and the pebbles
That hear the lone tamarisk rooted in sand
Sway
With the song of the sea to the land.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCCBDDEFBF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 333
Words 68
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

George Meredith

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. more…

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