Robert Bridges Quotes

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• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Robert Bridges

  Summer, Garden, Clouds

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• When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

  Robert Bridges

  Love, Firsts, Masters

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• 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

  Sweet, Firsts, April

  'So sweet love seemed' (1894)

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• Good melody is never out of fashion

  Robert Bridges

  Fashion, Melody

  Robert Bridges (1927). “Collected Essays, Papers, Etc”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

  Robert Bridges

  Looks, Youth, Tire

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Magic, Accepted

  "The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar". Book by Robert Bridges, 1917.

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• Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

  Robert Bridges

  Love, Wise, Love Is

  Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.185, Library of Alexandria

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• O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

  Robert Bridges

  Music, Skills, Soul

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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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.

  Robert Bridges

  Change, Growing, Truth Is

  'So sweet love seemed' (1894)

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• 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

  Lying, Fall, Men

  "London Snow" l. 1 (1890)

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• When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

  Robert Bridges

  Love, Firsts, Sentimental

  Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.208, Library of Alexandria

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• Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

  Robert Bridges

  Angel, Creation, Spouse

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• I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in an hourMy song be like a flower!

  Robert Bridges

  Song, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

  Robert Bridges

  Home, Moon, Shadow

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

  Robert Bridges

  Spring, Clouds, Light

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

  Robert Bridges

  Sweet, Clouds, Heaven

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

  Robert Bridges

  Brilliant, Hills, Silver

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• 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

  Spiritual, Men, Mind

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• I love all beauteous things,
  I seek and adore them

  Robert Bridges

  Beauty, Adore

  Robert Bridges (1894). “The Growth of Love”

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• I live in hope and that I think do all
  Who come into this world.

  Robert Bridges

  Hope, Thinking, World

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

  Robert Bridges

  Lonely, Lying, Land

  Elkin Mathews, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Richard Watson Dixon (1897). “Garland of New Poetry”

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• Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Joy, Pathways

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• 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

  Up In The Air, Clouds, Skirts

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

  Running, Lying, Night

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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