Robert Bridges Quotes
1844–1930 England
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet. He was poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.
Also known as: Bridges, Robert, Bridges, Robert Seymour, Robert Seymour Bridges
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The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earth’s floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled o’er.
The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
Is fallen back in the west.
I live on hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.
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.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Love can tell, and love alone, ...
How, in spite of woe and death,
Gay is life, and sweet is breath.
Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide,
Where Truth and Beauty grow.
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky.
The evening darkens over
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.
To-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.
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.
Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.
And whiter grows the foam,
The small moon lightens more;
And as I turn me home,
My shadow walks before.
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.
Shorter Poems (1879)
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?
Shorter Poems (1879)
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.
And Reason kens he herits in
A haunted house. Tenants unknown
Assert their squalid lease of sin
With earlier title than his own.
When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.
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.
Shorter Poems (1879)
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.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)