Part 1

Transcribed from the 1912 Times Book Club “Surrey” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

POEMS VOL. III

BY GEORGE MEREDITH

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SURREY EDITION

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LONDON THE TIMES BOOK CLUB 376–384 OXFORD STREET, W. 1912

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Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to his Majesty

CONTENTS

PAGE A STAVE OF ROVING TIM, 1

The wind is East, the wind is West, JUMP-TO-GLORY JANE, 5

A revelation came on Jane, THE RIDDLE FOR MEN, 14

This Riddle rede or die, THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY, 15

One fairest of the ripe unwedded left ‘LOVE IS WINGED FOR TWO,’ 30 ‘ASK, IS LOVE DIVINE,’ 30 ‘JOY IS FLEET,’ 31 THE LESSON OF GRIEF, 31

Not ere the bitter herb we taste, WIND ON THE LYRE, 32

That was the chirp of Ariel THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, 33

His Lady queen of woods to meet, THE EMPTY PURSE, 34

Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank, TO THE COMIC SPIRIT, 56

Sword of Common Sense!— YOUTH IN MEMORY, 68

Days, when the ball of our vision PENETRATION AND TRUST, 75

Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone, NIGHT OF FROST IN MAY, 76

With splendour of a silver day, THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, 79

A Satyr spied a Goddess in her bath, BREATH OF THE BRIAR, 81

O briar-scents, on yon wet wing EMPEDOCLES, 82

He leaped. With none to hinder, ENGLAND BEFORE THE STORM, 83

The day that is the night of days, TARDY SPRING, 85

Now the North wind ceases, THE LABOURER, 87