Robert Seymour Bridges: Quotes about joy

Robert Seymour Bridges was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on joy.
Robert Seymour Bridges: 86   quotes 16   likes

“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

Love , Wisdom , Youth , Beauty

“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

“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)

Love , Marriage , Age , Flowers