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

Quote by Alice Meynell

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

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Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

This volume presents a selection of Alice Meynell's poetry, reflecting her deep engagement with spiritual and philosophical themes. Meynell's work is characterized by its introspective nature and her ability to convey complex emotions through her verse. 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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“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

“A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.”

Wall Simplicity

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Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed.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.”

World Seems Might Political Party Cases Rights Blood Share Revolution Fortune Violent Curious Enjoyed Ashamed Denied Delicate Trifles Political Life Political Rights

Author:Alice Meynell

“No mirror keeps its glances.”

Mirrors Glances

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.”

Black Dark Fairs

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.”

Heart Thousand Endless Streams Strife

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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.”

Knows Men World Way Nations Journey Cost Rounds Celestial Scenery

Author:Alice Meynell