Robert Bridges Quotes
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
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Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
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When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
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Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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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…
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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…
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But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see,…
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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…
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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
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The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The…
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Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
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And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
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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.
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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…
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Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.
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I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
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Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
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I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
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