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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. King Harald's Trance
  2. Modern Love. Sonnet 2. It Ended
  3. Modern Love. Sonnet 41. How Many a Thing which We Cast to the Ground
  4. Empdeocles
  5. A Ballad of Past Meridian


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