Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges, OMwas Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 October 1844
animal men air
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...
brilliant hills silver
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.
lonely lying land
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.
lying valleys may
The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.
running lying night
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?
angel night garden
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
lying balance administration
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
love firsts praying
When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
beauty secret being-the-best
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
moon wind clouds
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.
spring light white
Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
spiritual men mind
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.
anniversary turns
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.
love wise love-is
Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.