"Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts……" — Robert Bridges
"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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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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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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