Quotes from Shorter Poems — Robert Bridges
1844–1930 England
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But I can tell — let truth be told —
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is nought to see,
So delicate his motions be.
Shorter Poems (1879)
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)
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)
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!
Shorter Poems (1879)