Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

by George Meredith

POEMS AND LYRICS

OF

THE JOY OF EARTH

 

 

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POEMS AND LYRICS

OF

THE JOY OF EARTH

 

BY

GEORGE MEREDITH

 

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883

 

 

 

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

 

 

INSCRIBED TO

JAMES COTTER MORISON

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Antistans mihi milibus trecentis.

 

 

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

• The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment.
• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.
• Evan Harrington.
• Emilia in England.
• Vittoria.
• Beauchamp's Career.
• The Egoist.

&c. &c.

Forthcoming Publications in Verse.

• Poems.
• The Sentimentalists: A Comedy.

 

 

CONTENTS.

PAGE

The Woods of Westermain ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

A Ballad of Past Meridian ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

28

The Day of the Daughter of Hades ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

30

The Lark Ascending ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

64

Phoebus with Admetus ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

71

Melampus ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

79

Love in the Valley ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

87

The Three Singers to Young Blood ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

101

The Orchard and the Heath ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

105

Martin's Puzzle ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

109

Earth and Man ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

115

A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

130

SONNETS.

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Lucifer in Starlight ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

157

The Star Sirius ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

158

Sense and Spirit ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

159

Earth's Secret ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

160

The Spirit of Shakespeare ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

161

The Spirit of Shakespeare—Continued ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

162

Internal Harmony ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

163

Grace and Love ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

164

Appreciation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

165

The Discipline of Wisdom ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

166

The State of Age ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

167

Progress ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

168

The World's Advance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

169

A Certain People ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

170

The Garden of Epicurus ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

171

A Later Alexandrian ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

172

An Orson of the Muse ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

173

The Point of Taste ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

174

Camelus Saltat ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

175

Camelus Saltat—Continued ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

176

To J. M. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

177

To a Friend Lost ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

178

My Theme ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

179

My Theme—Continued ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

180

Time and Sentiment ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

181

 

 

Phoebus with Admetus.

The measure runs:

– ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ –
 – ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ –́ –́ –́

Melampus.

⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –
 ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ –

Love in the Valley:

Trochaic, variable in short syllables according to stress of the accent.

A sketch of this poem appeared in a volume published many years back, now extinct.