All stars are angels; but the sun is God.
Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems. 1882, p. 280.
See also Mr. Swinburne’s An Autumn Vision, October 31, 1889.
GEORGE MEREDITH, 1883
(b. 1828)
“The Spirit of Shakespeare.”
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured
He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell
Of human passions, but of love deflowered