“The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.” MenWorldSoulEyeMovingExpressionMessagesAll ThingsWindowSightRefuseRejectsCurtainsSeemingEyelids Author:Alice Meynell
“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.” WorldSeemsMightPoliticalPartyCasesRightsBloodShareRevolutionFortuneViolentCuriousEnjoyedAshamedDeniedDelicateTriflesPolitical LifePolitical Rights Author:Alice Meynell
“Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.” KnowsMenWorldWayNationsJourneyCostRoundsCelestialScenery Author:Alice Meynell
“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.” WorldNatureMoonPeacefulApples Author:Alice Meynell
“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.” WorldChildrenStillsFacesYoungHoursRichSkyPoetWindFlowerSpringSacredProphetMidstShowersUnseenGreyMysticUnbornOld WorldForlorn Book:Poems Source: Poems
