Robert Seymour Bridges: Cloud

Robert Seymour Bridges was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on cloud.

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“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

“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

Truth , Peace , Beauty

“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

“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

“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