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Modern Love V: A Message from Her George Meredith	A message from her set his brain aflame. A world of household matters filled her mind, Wherein he saw hypocrisy designed: She treated him as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love VI: It Chanced His Lips Did Meet George Meredith	It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool. She had no blush, but slanted down her eye. Shamed nature, then, confesses love can die: And most...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love VIII: Yet It Was Plain She Struggled George Meredith	Yet it was plain she struggled, and that salt Of righteous feeling made her pitiful. Poor twisting worm, so queenly beautiful! Where came the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love X: But Where Began the Change George Meredith	But where began the change; and what's my crime? The wretch condemned, who has not been arraigned, Chafes at his sentence. Shall I, unsustained, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XI: Out in the Yellow Meadows George Meredith	Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee Hums by us with the honey of the Spring, And showers of sweet notes from the larks on wing, Are dropping...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XII: Not Solely That the Future George Meredith	Not solely that the Future she destroys, And the fair life which in the distance lies For all men, beckoning out from dim rich skies: Nor that the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XIII: I Play for Seasons, Not Eternities George Meredith	'I play for Seasons; not Eternities!' Says Nature, laughing on her way. 'So must All those whose stake is nothing more than dust!' And lo, she...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XIV: What Soul Would Bargain George Meredith	What soul would bargain for a cure that brings Contempt the nobler agony to kill? Rather let me bear on the bitter ill, And strike this rusty bosom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XIX: No State Is Enviable George Meredith	No state is enviable. To the luck alone Of some few favoured men I would put claim. I bleed, but her who wounds I will not blame. Have I not felt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XL: I Bade My Lady Think George Meredith	I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet be jealous of another? None Commits such folly. Terrible...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLI: How Many a Thing George Meredith	How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up becomes a gem! We grasp at all the wealth it is to them; And by reflected...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLII: I Am to Follow Her George Meredith	I am to follow her. There is much grace In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. They think that dignity of soul may come, Perchance, with dignity of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLIII: Mark Where the Pressing Wind George Meredith	Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like, Its skeleton shadow on the broad-backed wave! Here is a fitting spot to dig Love's grave; Here...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLIV: They Say That Pity George Meredith	They say, that Pity in Love's service dwells, A porter at the rosy temple's gate. I missed him going: but it is my fate To come upon him now...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLIX: He Found Her George Meredith	He found her by the ocean's moaning verge, Nor any wicked change in her discerned; And she believed his old love had returned, Which was her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLV: It Is the Season George Meredith	It is the season of the sweet wild rose, My Lady's emblem in the heart of me! So golden-crownèd shines she gloriously, And with that softest dream...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLVI: At Last We Parley George Meredith	At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the Matin-bell, And lo! her place was vacant, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLVII: We Saw the Swallows George Meredith	We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to look back on summer joys, Or forward to a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XLVIII: Their Sense George Meredith	Their sense is with their senses all mixed in, Destroyed by subleties these women are! More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar Utterly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XV: I Think She Sleeps George Meredith	I think she sleeps: it must be sleep, when low Hangs that abandoned arm toward the floor; The face turned with it. Now make fast the door. Sleep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XVI: In Our Old Shipwrecked Days George Meredith	In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour, When in the firelight steadily aglow, Joined slackly, we beheld the red chasm grow Among the clicking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XVII: At Dinner She Is Hostess George Meredith	At dinner, she is hostess, I am host. Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keeps The Topic over intellectual deeps In buoyancy afloat. They see no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XVIII: Here Jack and Tom George Meredith	Here Jack and Tom are paired with Moll and Meg. Curved open to the river-reach is seen A country merry-making on the green. Fair space for signal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XX: I Am Not of Those George Meredith	I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice and, daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for heaven. I take the hap Of all my deeds. The wind...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XXI: We Three Are George Meredith	We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn; My friend being third. He who at love once laughed, Is in the weak rib by a fatal shaft Struck through,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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