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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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• Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

  Robert Bridges

  Beauty, Secret, Being The Best

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

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• The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

  Robert Bridges

  Moon, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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• Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Balance, Administration

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• The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

  Robert Bridges

  Names, Soul, Definitions

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• The hill pines were sighing,
  O'ercast and chill was the day;
  A mist in the valley lying
  Blotted the pleasant May.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, May, Valleys

  Robert Bridges (1899). “Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Shorter poems. New poems. Notes”

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• My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

  Robert Bridges

  Angel, Night, Garden

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

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• 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

  Sea, Sky, White

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

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• To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

  Robert Bridges

  Waking, Empty, Morrow

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

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