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

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