Robert Seymour Bridges: Quotes about love

Robert Seymour Bridges was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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

Love , Heart

“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)

Love , Kiss , Change

“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

“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

“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

Love , Smile

“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

Love , Youth , Art , Flowers

“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

“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