George Meredith Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

  George Meredith

  Death, Nature, Garden

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

  George Meredith

  Stars, Fire, Dying

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

• For singing till his heaven fills,
  'Tis love of earth that he instills,
  And ever winging up and up,
  Our valley is his golden cup,
  And he the wine which over flows
  To lift us with him as he goes.

  George Meredith

  Wine, Heaven, Singing

  1883 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'The Lark Ascending'.

• The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

  George Meredith

  Water, Golden, Fields

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 19

• Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

  George Meredith

  Mother, Children, Moving

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.293, Library of Alexandria

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