# Poems — Volume 1

Author: Meredith, George, 1828-1909

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1381

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+Meredith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

How low when angels fall their black descent, MODERN LOVE, 181 I. By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: II. It ended, and the morrow brought the task. III. This was the woman; what now of the man? IV. All other joys of life he strove to warm, V. A message from her set his brain aflame. VI. It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool. VII. She issues radiant from her dressing-room, VIII. Yet it was plain she struggled, and that salt IX. He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles X. But where began the change; and what’s my crime? XI. Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee XII. Not solely that the Future she destroys, XIII. ‘I play for Seasons; not Eternities!’ XIV. What soul wou...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-volume-1-1381/chapters/12/index.md)