Francis William Bourdillon quotes

As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea, Though by the wind made restless as the wind, By billows fretted and by rocks confined, So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee. (Francis William Bourdillon)
So my great love for thee lies tranquil, deep, Forever; though above it passions fierce, Ambition, hatred, jealousy; like waves That seem from earth's core to the sky to leap, But ocean's depths can never really pierce; Hide its great calm, while all the surface raves. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
Slowly the joy of flower and bird Did like a tide withdraw; And in the heaven a silent star Smiled on me, infinitely far. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
Yet came there never voice nor sign; But through my being stole Sense of a Universe divine, And knowledge of a soul Perfected in the joy of things, The star, the flower, the bird that sings. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
I buoyed me on the wings of dream, Above the world of sense; I set my thought to sound the scheme, And fathom the Immense. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
Sudden thy silent beauty on me shone, Fair as the moon had given thee all her spell. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
Nor I am more, nor less, than these; All are one brotherhood; I and all creatures, plants, and trees, The living limbs of God; And in an hour, as this, divine, I feel the vast pulse throb in mine. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon
I walk as one unclothed of flesh, I wash my spirit clean; I see old miracles afresh, And wonders yet unseen. View quote
Francis William Bourdillon