Robert Bridges Quotes

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When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.

Robert Bridges
I know
that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see
the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds.

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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

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Were I a cloud I'd gather
My skirts up in the air,
And fly I well know whither,
And rest I well know where.

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I live on hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.

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So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.

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My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.

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I have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmemoried scents:
A honeymoon delight,
A joy of love at sight,
That ages in an hour
My song be like a flower!

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Seeking unceasingly for the First Cause of All,
in question for what special purpose he was made,
Man, in the unsearchable darkness, knoweth one thing:
that as he is, so was he made; and if the Essence
and characteristic faculty of humanity
is our conscient Reason and our desire of knowledge,
that was Nature's Purpose in the making of man.

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O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

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Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.

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Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,
Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,
That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,
Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

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Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

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And Reason kens he herits in
A haunted house. Tenants unknown
Assert their squalid lease of sin
With earlier title than his own.

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When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.

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On such a night, when Air has loosed
Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,
Old terrors then of god or ghost
Creep from their caves to life again.

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To-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.

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And now impatiently despairest, see
How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired
Splended for others' eyes if not for thee:
Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled:
If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.

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I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them;
God hath no better praise,
And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

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They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.

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And see how Mathematick rideth as a queencheer'd on her royal progress thru'out nature's realm.

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Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences,
the quality of appearances that thru' the sense
wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

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The name of happiness is but a wider term
for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,
attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd
to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature
spiritual is by definition unnatural.

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The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day;
A mist in the valley lying
Blotted the pleasant May.

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Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

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