Robert Bridges quotes - page 2

Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see, Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree. (Robert Bridges)
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. View quote
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The constellated sounds ran sprinkling on earth's floor As the dark vault above with stars was spangled o'er. View quote
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And now impatiently despairest, see How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired Splended for others' eyes if not for thee: Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled: If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead. View quote
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The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night. View quote
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Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Angels' song, comforting as the comfort of Christ When he spake tenderly to his sorrowful flock. View quote
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On such a night, when Air has loosed Its guardian grasp on blood and brain, Old terrors then of god or ghost Creep from their caves to life again. View quote
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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. (Robert Bridges)
The storm is over, the land hushes to rest: The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, Is fallen back in the west. View quote
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The broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep: The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep. View quote
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As night is withdrawn From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May, Dream, while the innumerable choir of day Welcome the dawn. View quote
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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. View quote
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Behind the western bars The shrouded day retreats, And unperceived the stars Steal to their sovran seats. And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before. View quote
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Seeking unceasingly for the First Cause of All, in question for what special purpose he was made, Man, in the unsearchable darkness, knoweth one thing: that as he is, so was he made; and if the Essence and characteristic faculty of humanity is our conscient Reason and our desire of knowledge, that was Nature's Purpose in the making of man. View quote
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Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. View quote
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