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Borrows wisdom from its ancient heat - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Haunts our source of sorrows - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Noise of iron knits his steel - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Till our Raven's plumes were scattered - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Nor the tender bloom of promise - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

To waken laughter from cold stones - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

The last echoes of Diana's horn - George Meredith "Appreciation"

That streamed from morning's fire - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Beware Old Kraken's pledge of faith - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

New message from the skies - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Left on her the burden of their sighs - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Divide about an icy star - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

When light has birth - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

But now they dream like sunlight - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

The yellow yesterdays of time - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Withhold her most destructive flame - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

The banner in the strife - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Might pluck an angel from the spheres - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

No choice save darkness or rebellion - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Would see your conqueror's decree - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Of tyrants in all days - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

As the lightning night reveals - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Reflecting heaven in clearness - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

False ends as false began - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Our high light pursue - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Might in a wondering season - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Has disdained her ancient conquests - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"

Deeper than flower and fruit - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

On a reaped afternoon - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Of the flowers flooding grass - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The coming of wrathful rain - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Of a fire beaten flat - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Like the trance of eyes awake - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Not a sign of the torch in the blood - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

As the cries of the rainy cranes - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Under the shaken ground - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The bees chose their flowers - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Making the earth full glad - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

A wavering beam of various lights - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

That hour of the piercing shaft - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Confused in veins of fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Breathed as if breath had failed - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Some swarming whispers above - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

But never so fell a scowl - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

From under the haunted roof - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Again in disorderly words - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Torn features of wrath - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

As a thundercloud swings on the moon - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The valley in ruin of fields - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Burning through with inherited fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Contending with the flies - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

Which are ripe fruit of sun - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

The struggle to be wise - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

Contending with the flies - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

His breath of instant thirst - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Of a creature matched with strife - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

The burden of his cry - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Her revelries of ripeness - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

A sensitive abhorring dust - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

By virtue of his worth - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

That sing his soul in stone - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Fair fountains of the dark - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Life in soul and shell - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Has passed him vapour to the sun - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

That to young sunlight crows - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Trouble passions toss the mind - George Meredith "Earth's Secret"

Priming our world with light - George Meredith "Grace and Love"

Should strange Fates withhold - George Meredith "Grace and Love"

The wind has teeth, the wind has claws - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

The wind's wolves through the woods are loose - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

This fierce angel of the air - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

The common strokes of fortune shower - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Such meaning in a dagger-day - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Sharpened life commands its course - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

With Life and Death I walked - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Learn the secret of the shrouded death - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Brings heaven to the flower - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Through widening chambers of surprise - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

The space of dewdrops running over leaf - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

To spell the letters of the sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

An aim beyond the head - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

My last above the daisies - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"

Fighting the devil in other men's fields - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"

Armed to split a mountain - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"

In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"

The silver chain of sound - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

By simple singing of delight - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

The starry voice ascending - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

The wedding song of sun and rains - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

In the song they drink - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

Tameless heart in battered frame - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

And then beware her scorn - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Writes the melancholy scrawl of wreckage - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Caught from dubious hues - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

The reed of the old moaning waste - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

A forest-echo of her voice - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

And cast the old world off as dust - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Our season's debts pay calmly - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The proudest seasons find their graves - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The battle of the antidote - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

All vein and artery on cold sky - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

In some rich year become a dream - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

For the strenuous mind in quest - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Dare take Niagara leaps - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

And, as a garment, put on rage - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Trained to trumpet out his moods - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

That haunting spectre of success - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Nightmares of bankruptcy and death - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

A headless tyrant built of wealth - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Sniffs the putrid steam of praise - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Obeisant in Mammon's walk - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

When fainting heroes beg for bread - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Bring back a braver dawn - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Before the laughing mirror - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Made to bruise and bless - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Brave in her shape - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

While the grave East deepens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Grave eyes craving light - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Cool as dew in twilight - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The lark above the flowers - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Bend beaten cheek to gravel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

That carries thoughts of me - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The edge of shade and shine - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Shy as the squirrel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Wayward as the swallow - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Or edging over thunder - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Like the sun were she seen - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Straight rains and tiger sky - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

On violet shaded snow - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Our souls were in our names - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Lucid in the moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Green transfused in silver - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Swims to me on tears - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

To be alone with heaven - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

That pricked his scars with memory - George Meredith "Lucifer in Starlight"

And summoned Nature to her feud - George Meredith "Manfred"

With orbs that are so resolutely far - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Ireful at human hungers - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Breath of thought beyond our bounds - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Shoreless, sown with fiery sails - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

By its craven thirsts and fears distraught - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

The lord of Mind to guide our eyes - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

No branch of Reason's growing - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

That robe of printed hours - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

With tones of love - George Meredith "Melampus"

In a whirl of voluble hates - George Meredith "Melampus"

With music wrought of distraction - George Meredith "Melampus"

Evolved of sound into sight - George Meredith "Melampus"

As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"

One straight bolt can check - George Meredith "My Theme"

Through ruinous floods uplift - George Meredith "My Theme"

Treat with Nature in official pacts - George Meredith "My Theme: Continuation"

For rapture of a wine of tears - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

Off the last vital edge of air - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

Craved the trumpet's eager note - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

String threads of grass and slender rye - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

That drank of havoc deep - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Gold of woeful fields and towns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Scores of iron horsemen rode - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Shadows of a vulture's claw - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Fast as windy flame devours - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

He is Death that weds a ghost - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

In the press of flag and spear - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Cheated by a juggler's show - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Wild for speed to cheat despair - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Where rhetoric seems reason - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

Drums whose loudness is their emptiness - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

Fruits were all their sky - George Meredith "The Orchard and the Heath"

The game the wind plays - George Meredith "The Orchard and the Heath"

Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"

A smell of woodland wine - George Meredith "Outer and Inner"

Wake a swarm to sudden storm - George Meredith "Outer and Inner"

Having sworn by Styx tremendous - George Meredith "Phaethon"

All the end foreseeing - George Meredith "Phaethon"

Beneath a wind unheard - George Meredith "Phoebus with Admetus"

Wreathed for feasts not few - George Meredith "Phoebus with Admetus"

Poets of a sunken prime - George Meredith "The Point of Taste"

The excommunicates of Rhyme - George Meredith "The Point of Taste"

Eyes for pirate fellowship - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Mixed to write them saint or snake - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Scorning pity's tears - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Soaked in the ditch's dyes - George Meredith "Seed-Time"

Star in circle his web waits - George Meredith "Seed-Time"

With some jars in harmony - George Meredith "Society"

Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"

Another flood of fangs and claws - George Meredith "Society"

Fashioned in another clay - George Meredith "Solon"

In the braid of purpled vapours - George Meredith "The South-Wester"

Sick Philosophy's last leaves - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"

When from her soul divorced - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"

Planting joy in constant fire - George Meredith "The Star Sirius"

Prone and void as any thoughtless dash - George Meredith "The State of Age"

Any straw will help a nest - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Different notes as rook from wren - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Then the cry that knows not law - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Trample appetite to dust - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Nor let leap the heart - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Solely in that cherished Rose - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Heavenly Rose to swelling sea - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Budded beech with dry leaves curled - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

The year advancing to the vernal gate - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Enrobed in morning's mounted fire - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

What the teeth of Time devour - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"

Of an aspect sisterly with Truth - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"

Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Whose memory in our vital air - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Across the ruffled strip of salt - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"

Among the vapours waxing dense - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"

With shudders chill as aconite - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"

Among those athletes fronting storms - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"

Penned in their narrow day - George Meredith "To J. M."

Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"

Reveals the wheels whereon we run - George Meredith "Woodman and Echo"

Soft as winnowing plumes of sleep - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Shroud you in their glare - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

So in soul's desire - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The throne Success usurps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Twisting hues of flourished steel - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Timelessly to drowsy suns - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The Nurse of seed - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Glory narrowing to grace - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Whom Song has made her stars - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Yet outshine the time - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

As dewlight off the rose - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Hears the heart of wildness - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

For a tyrant's flattered pride - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Where the tiger claws the snake - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Though lightnings track your wit - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

What words from Wisdom come - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Fire in water hued as wine - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Silence of the thunders locked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Your hungers from their nerve - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The reflex of that Fount - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Scaring Fear till Fear escapes - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

That through blood run sane - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Echoed with concordant Why - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Here, their worths exchanged - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

That with deep Earth unites - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Turn forward our blown lamps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Meet the light invoked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"


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