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I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
Robert Bridges
When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
Robert Bridges
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
Robert Bridges
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
When Death to either shall come- I pray it be first to me.
Robert Bridges
For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
Robert Bridges
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
Robert Bridges
To-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking.
Robert Bridges
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can delicatly and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.
Robert Bridges
Good melody is never out of fashion.
Robert Bridges
Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
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?
Robert Bridges
Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life, whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.
Robert Bridges
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.
Robert Bridges
And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.
Robert Bridges
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