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Poem by George Meredith


Gordon of Khartoum


Of men he would have raised to light he fell:
In soul he conquered with those nerveless hands.
His country's pride and her abasement knell
The Man of England circled by the sands. 



George Meredith


George Meredith's other poems:
  1. Mother to Babe
  2. Modern Love. Sonnet 38. Give to Imagination
  3. Modern Love. Sonnet 41. How Many a Thing which We Cast to the Ground
  4. Modern Love. Sonnet 23. 'Tis Christmas Weather
  5. Angela Burdett-Coutts


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