Alice Meynell Quotes

1847–1922 England

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,
Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.

Preludes (1875)

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies.

The Colour of Life and Other Essays (1896)

O daisy mine, what will it be to look
From God's side even of such a simple thing?

Preludes (1875)

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

The Children (1897)

Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide,
Like all created things, secrets from me,
And stand a barrier to eternity.

Preludes (1875)

From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight
And go with the hour.

Flocks of the memories of the day draw near
The dovecote doors of sleep.

Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

The Children (1897)

The roads […] fly from the city of confusion.[…] No other road looks so resolute in flight as the rail.

London Impressions (1898)

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (1899)

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (1899)

In the case of the woman's figure it is the foot, with its extreme proportional smallness, that gives the precious instability, the spring and balance that are so organic.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

My day-mind can endure
Upright, in hope, all it must undergo.
But O, afraid, unsure,
My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

Poems (1923)

My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,
Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,
From root to crowning petal thine alone.

Preludes (1875)

I came from nothing; but from where
Come these undying thoughts I bear?

Poems (1893)

This moment's Tiber with his shining eyes
Never saw Rome before.

Poems (1923)

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays (1909)

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it back—it is already so far.

The Colour of Life and Other Essays (1896)

Thou inmost, ultimate
Council of judgment, palace of decrees
Where the high senses hold their spiritual state,
Sued by earth's embassies,
And sign, approve, accept, conceive, create.

Poems (1913)

To mount a hill is to lift with you something lighter and brighter than yourself or than any meaner burden. You lift the world, you raise the horizon; you give a signal for the distance to stand up.

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (1899)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Meynell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.