"There is a hill beside the silver Thames,……" — Robert Bridges
"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."
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21 Quotes by Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges has 21 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind,…
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But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by…
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The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is…
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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…
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More Beech Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
— Stanley Baldwin
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When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright…
— Andrew Young
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this…
— Unknown Author
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And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a…
— Pietro Aretino
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The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to…
— Miss Read
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group…
— Gary Snyder
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the…
— Alice Oswald
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If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest…
— Gustav Klimt
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The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and…
— Jane Goodall
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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for…
— Phillips Brooks
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