Robert Bridges Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.

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Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.

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Angels' song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.

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Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.

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O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

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

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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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The evening darkens over
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.

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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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The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earth's floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled o'er.

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Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky.

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The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
Is fallen back in the west.

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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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Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide,
Where Truth and Beauty grow.

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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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Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created.

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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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A Poppy grows upon the shore Bursts her twin cup in summer late: Her leaves are glaucous green and hoar, Her petals yellow, delicate.

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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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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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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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Surely thy body is thy mind,
For in thy face is nought to find,
Only thy soft unchristened smile,
That shadows neither love nor guile.

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I will not let thee go.
I hold thee by too many bands:
Thou sayest farewell, and lo!
I have thee by the hands,
And will not let thee go.

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