 For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic secret then is ours : We fall, or view our treasures fall, Unclouded, as beholds her flowers Earth, from a night of frosty wreck, Enrobed in morning's mounted fire, When lowly, with a broken neck, The...  Selected Poems - Pagina 43di George Meredith - 1897 - 249 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pagine
...Vitality as Earth it mates, The meaning of the Pleasures, Pains, The Life, the Death, illuminates. For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic...a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. — Macmillari s Magazine. BY MATTHEW M. TRUMBULL. THE recent controversy between the House of Lords... | |
 | 1897 - 418 pagine
...the Hardyesque reproach for very existence that destiny may give life. " For love we Earth, then love we all ; Her mystic secret then is ours ; We fall,...a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire." RSD '•LITERARY STATESMEN." By Norman Hapgood. Herbert S. Stone & Co. Chicago. He is greeted at the... | |
 | 1928 - 556 pagine
...and in the crisis of Richard Feverel, the prose poem "Nature Speaks." So Spirit and Earth are finally For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic secret then is ours.6 Meredith's faith in Earth, a faith rooted in science but flowering into a kind of mysticism,... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pagine
...doing service, I have my home within." • Equanimity, love, and service are interknlt in the poems: For love we Earth, then serve we all; Her mystic secret...morning's mounted fire, When lowly, with a broken neck, Tbe crocus lays her cheek to mire.' I have indicated one line of cleavage between Meredith and Rousseau.... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 252 pagine
...Vitality as Earth it mates, The meaning of the Pleasures, Pains, The Life, the Death, illuminates. For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic...a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER I Demeter devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter snatched... | |
 | 1898 - 614 pagine
...hours. Sanity amid beauty, courage amid the ruin of it, is for him earth's secret. " We fall, or viesv our treasures fall, Unclouded, as beholds her flowers...a broken neck. The crocus lays her cheek to mire." AM A MODERN GREEK ROMANCE.* Whatever one may hear of the literary activity of modern Greece, one is... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1900 - 260 pagine
...Cecrops!" saith the poet; and wilt not thou say, " Dear City of God."' MARCUS AURELIUS (iv. 23). ' For love we earth then serve we all; Her mystic secret then is ours.' GEORGE MEREDITH: 'The Thrush in February.' CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN was born at Alwington, near... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pagine
...that Her workings are entirely good. In " The Thrush in February " he has given us this teaching — " For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic...a broken neck, The Crocus lays her cheek to mire." And, following up this idea further, we may quote the last lines of " Outer and Inner," in which some... | |
 | George Meredith - 1906 - 488 pagine
...Vitality as Earth it mates, The meaning of the Pleasures, Pains, The Life, the Death, illuminates. For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic...a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER DEMETEK devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter snatched... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 266 pagine
...thus that he faces death, with the ' rapture of the forward view ' for humanity to cheer him : — For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic...lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.1 The 'warriors of the sighting brain,' whose love and labour 'give worn humanity new youth,'... | |
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