Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

Robert Seymour Bridges was 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. October 1844 – 21. April 1930
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Famous Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

“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&amp;poem=30254, st. 7. <br class="br">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). <br class="br">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&amp;poem=29064, st. 1 (1893). <br class="br">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). <br class="br">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&amp;poem=27759, l. 1-3. <br class="br">Poetry

Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes about beauty

“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)

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)

“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. <br class="br">Poetry

“Good melody is never out of fashion”

Robert Seymour Bridges

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

“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)

“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). <br class="br">Poetry

“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). <br class="br">Poetry

“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

“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). <br class="br">Poetry

“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

“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. <br class="br">Poetry

“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). <br class="br">Poetry

“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

“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). <br class="br">Shorter Poems (1879-1893)

“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. <br class="br">Poetry

“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

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