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
courting heard lady
I heard a linnet courting / His lady in the spring.
beneath bid birds blossoming buds built carpet hid million pilgrim shall shower sing soft south stay steps till wait
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.
adjust couple good past record
I think (the players) will be able to adjust pretty easy. I don't think their record has been as good in the past couple of years as it can be.
beauty hard love nor ready sat stood summer sure till train triumph
Beauty sat with me all the summer day, / Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; / Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, / Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
english-poet hope
I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
aims beauty best secret sums
For beauty being the best of all we know / Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims / Of nature.
up-in-the-air clouds skirts
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.
waking empty morrow
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
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.