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“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.”

Quote by Alice Meynell

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

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The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

This collection brings together a selection of Alice Meynell's poetry, prose, and critical essays, offering a deep insight into her intellectual and artistic pursuits. Meynell's work is celebrated for its wit, elegance, and exploration of complex themes, making this collection a valuable resource for readers interested in the works of this influential figure in the literary world. more

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Alice Meynell was an English writer born on September 22, 1847, and died on November 27, 1922. Her works encompassed poetry, prose, and criticism, known for their delicate emotion and profound thought. more

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“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”

Humans Made Whole Light Sound Known Notes Boots Bells Festivals Joyous Merry Bishops Grim Harshness Highwaymen

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.”

Mind Lying Night Lows Endure Waking Unsure

Author:Alice Meynell

“But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.”

Knows Sea Loneliness Ocean Presses Visiting

Author:Alice Meynell

“With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.”

Found Literature Answers Too Much Poet Musician Bird Praise Agree Tongue Interpretation Bells Echoes Rhyme Utterance Inaccessible Inarticulate Mimicry

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.”

Should Heart Done Pain Difficult Effort Opinion Difficulty Obscurity

Author:Alice Meynell

“Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.”

Littles Age Clouds Rome Towers Floats Mist

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.”

Children Littles Running Sleep Feet Breaths Innocent Hurrying

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Solitude is separate experience.”

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.”

Knows Years Children Eye Young Sweet Spring Surprise Thee Leafs Violet Young Children

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Years Mind Doe Matter Lasts Suffering Next Week Events Depends Tides Last Year Next Year Ups & Downs Next Week Recurrence

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection