Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes (43 quotes)

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Famous Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Clouds Have Left the Sky http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallettas_pics/119997132/.
Poetry

“The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earth’s floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled o’er.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Noel Christmas Eve 1913.
Poetry

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Growth of Love http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=510395, Sonnet 6 (1876).
Poetry

“When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Triolet.
Poetry

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

I Will Not Let Thee Go http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=30254, st. 7.
Poetry

“I live on hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Sonnet LXXIII.
Poetry

Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes about love

“I have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmemoried scents:
A honeymoon delight,
A joy of love at sight,
That ages in an hour
My song be like a flower!”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Bk. II, No. 13, I Have Loved Flowers That Fade http://www.poetry-online.org/bridges_i_have_loved_flowers_that_fade.htm, st. 1 (1879).
Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

“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 Seymour Bridges

Bk. V, No. 5, So Sweet Love Seemed http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=29064, st. 1 (1893).
Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Eros http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2933.html, st. 1 (1899).
Poetry

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Eros, st. 2.
Poetry

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Melancholia http://www.sonnets.org/bridges.htm, st. 2.
Poetry

“Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=27759, l. 1-3.
Poetry

Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes about beauty

“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 Seymour Bridges

Book II, lines 842-844.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

Morning Hymn.
Poetry

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 1-2.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry

Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

“The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
Is fallen back in the west.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Storm is Over, The Land Hushes to Rest, l. 1-3.
Poetry

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 492-492.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Summer

“The evening darkens over
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Evening Darkens Over http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bridges1.html, st. 1.
Poetry

Night

“Good melody is never out of fashion”

Robert Seymour Bridges

A Practical Discourse on some Priciples of Hymn-singing Collected Essays no 22.
Essays

Fashion

“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 Seymour Bridges

Book I, No. 4, The Cliff-Top.
Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

Flying

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Low Barometer http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2934.html, st. 2 (1926).
Poetry

Life , God , Night

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

New Poems, No. 9, My Delight and Thy Delight http://www.poetry-online.org/bridges_my_delight.htm, st. 1 (1899).
Poetry

Angels , Night

“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 Seymour Bridges

So Sweet Love Seemed, st. 2 (1893).
Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

Love , Truth , Change

“Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Noel Christmas Eve 1913.
Poetry

Angels , Christ

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar 1917 (from Collected Essays).
Essays

“The name of happiness is but a wider term
for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,
attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd
to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature
spiritual is by definition unnatural.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 533-537.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Life , Pleasure , Soul , Nature

“Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly
of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate
or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life,
whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 459-462.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Life , Pleasure , Motivation , Joy

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

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book I, lines 57-61.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Sadness , Hell , Sense , Joy

“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 Seymour Bridges

London Snow http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2931.html, l. 1-4 (1890).
Poetry

Men , Lying , Flying

“Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!”

Robert Seymour Bridges

On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890).
Poetry

Perfection

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Washington by Robert Bridges (1858 - 1941), American journalist and poet, who wrote under the pen name "Droch".
Misattributed

Fate , Faith

“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

When Death to Either Shall Come http://www.bartleby.com/101/840.html.
Poetry

Death

“I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

I Love all Beauteous Things http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2929.html, st. 1 (1890).
Poetry

Love

“They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

London Snow, l. 20-22.
Poetry

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Question , Nature , Knowledge

“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee
any better melody in the April woods at dawn
than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake
o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance
be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book I, lines 83-87.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Music , Lying , Nature

“To-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

I Love all Beauteous Things, st. 2.
Poetry

Dreams

“And Reason kens he herits in
A haunted house. Tenants unknown
Assert their squalid lease of sin
With earlier title than his own.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Low Barometer, st. 3.
Poetry

Housing

“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 Seymour Bridges

Bk. II, No. 2, A Passer-By http://www.bartleby.com/101/835.html, st. 1 (1879).
Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

Sea

“As night is withdrawn
From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,
Dream, while the innumerable choir of day
Welcome the dawn.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Nightingales http://www.poetry-online.org/bridges_nightingales.htm, st. 3.
Poetry

Dreams , Spring , Night

“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.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Storm is Over, The Land Hushes to Rest, l. 38-43.
Poetry

Sleep , Tree , Light , Night

“Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved, l. 13-14.
Poetry

Sleep , Tree , Light , Flying

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