George Meredith: Earth

George Meredith was British novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Explore interesting quotes on earth.
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“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”

George Meredith

Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.

Water , Sun

“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 pay for it full worth:
We have it only when we are half earth.”

George Meredith

St. 4.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

Wisdom , Star

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

George Meredith

The Lark Ascending http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/lark_ascending.htm, l. 65-70 (1881).

Love , Wine , Singing

“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

Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.

Children , Way