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Poem by George Meredith


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Joy is fleet,
Sorrow slow.
Love, so sweet,
Sorrow will sow.
Love, that has flown
Ere day's decline,
Love to have known,
Sorrow, be mine! 



George Meredith


George Meredith's other poems:
  1. Hawarden
  2. Modern Love. Sonnet 24. The Misery is Greater, as I Live!
  3. Modern Love. Sonnet 2. It Ended
  4. Modern Love. Sonnet 7. She Issues Radiant from Her Dressing-room
  5. Empdeocles


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