Robert Bridges famous quotes

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
-- Robert Bridges

#Summer #Garden #Clouds

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
-- Robert Bridges

#Love #Firsts #Masters

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 Bridges

#Sweet #Firsts #Strange

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them
-- Robert Bridges

#Beauty #Adore

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 Bridges

#Change #Growing #Truth Is

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.
-- Robert Bridges

#Lonely #Lying #Land

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
-- Robert Bridges

#Angel #Creation #Spouse

The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.
-- Robert Bridges

#Moon #Wind #Clouds

Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
-- Robert Bridges

#Spring #Light #White

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.
-- Robert Bridges

#Lying #May #Valleys

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 Bridges

#Lying #Fall #Men

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

#Lying #Magic #Accepted

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
-- Robert Bridges

#Waking #Empty #Morrow

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 Bridges

#Sea #Sky #White

I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in an hourMy song be like a flower!
-- Robert Bridges

#Song #Sweet #Flower

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.
-- Robert Bridges

#Men #Joy #Comfort

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 Bridges

#Clouds #Air #Skirts

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
-- Robert Bridges

#Lying #Balance #Administration

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.
-- Robert Bridges

#Names #Soul #Definitions

Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
-- Robert Bridges

#Running #Lying #Night

Good melody is never out of fashion
-- Robert Bridges

#Fashion #Melody

O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.
-- Robert Bridges

#Looks #Youth #Tire

Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.
-- Robert Bridges

#Anniversary #Turns

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
-- Robert Bridges

#Beauty #Secret #Being The Best

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
-- Robert Bridges

#Love #Firsts #Praying

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
-- Robert Bridges

#Angel #Night #Garden

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

#Sweet #Clouds #Heaven

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.
-- Robert Bridges

#Skills #Soul #Mind

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
-- Robert Bridges

#Home #Moon #Shadow

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 Bridges

#Spiritual #Men #Mind

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.
-- Robert Bridges

#Brilliant #Hills #Silver

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.
-- Robert Bridges

#Love #Wise #Love Is

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
-- Robert Bridges

#Hope #Thinking #World