Quotes from Preludes — Alice Meynell
1847–1922 England
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Thou art like silence unperplexed,
A secret and a mystery
Between one footfall and the next.
Preludes (1875)
Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,
Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.
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O daisy mine, what will it be to look
From God's side even of such a simple thing?
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Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide,
Like all created things, secrets from me,
And stand a barrier to eternity.
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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.
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O Spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise
In the young children's eyes.
But I have learnt the years, and know the yet
Leaf-folded violet.
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For you knew not it was I,
And I knew not it was you.
We have learnt, as days went by.
But a flower struck root and grew
Underground, and no one knew.
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Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
A mystic child is set in these still hours.
I keep this time, even before the flowers,
Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
Preludes (1875)