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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. Modern Love. Sonnet 38. Give to Imagination
  2. Empdeocles
  3. Unknown Fair Faces
  4. My Theme
  5. Modern Love. Sonnet 40. I Bade my Lady Think what She Might Mean


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