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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. Mother to Babe
  2. Modern Love. Sonnet 41. How Many a Thing which We Cast to the Ground
  3. King Harald's Trance
  4. Nature and Life
  5. Modern Love. Sonnet 38. Give to Imagination


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