Quotes by Robert Bridges - Page 1

Good melody is never out of fashion
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Fashion
Melody
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Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.
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Love
Wise
Love Is
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I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them
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Beauty
Adore
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When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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Love
Firsts
Sentimental
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I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
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Hope
Thinking
World
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To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
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Empty
Morrow
Waking
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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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Love
Firsts
Masters
Prove
Did
Master
Guess
Met
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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
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Angel
Delight
Garden
Night
Walking
Angels
Gardens
Thy
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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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Beauty
Aim
Being The Best
Secret
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Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
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Administration
Balance
Lying
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges / Poet
Gardening
Clouds
Colour
Garden
Rainbow
Summer
Visible
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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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Wisdom
Angel
Creation
Eternal
Spouse
Presence
Thru
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And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
Robert Bridges / Poet
Home
Moon
Shadow
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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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Anniversary
Smile
Turns
Wedding Anniversary
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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.
Robert Bridges / Poet
Air
Skirts
Cloud
Rest
Gather
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O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.
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Looks
Tire
Youth
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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.
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Clouds
Skirts
Up In The Air
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The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.
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Lying
May
Valleys
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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.
Robert Bridges / Poet
Clouds
Heaven
Sweet
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Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
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Accepted
Lying
Magic
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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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Clouds
Light
Spring
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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, So delicate his motions be.
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Change
Growing
Truth Is
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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 spent amiss.
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Music
Skills
Soul
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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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Men
Mind
Spiritual
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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 chimney shudders to the blast.
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Clouds
Moon
Wind
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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 could never change.
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April
Strange
Sweet
Love Change Never
Beside
Seemed
Thorn
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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 could never change.
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April
Firsts
Sweet
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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 to his floods decline.
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Brilliant
Hills
Silver
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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 from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.
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Land
Lonely
Lying
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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?
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Sea
Sky
White
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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.
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Men
Fall
Lying
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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!
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Flower
Song
Sweet
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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 / Poet
Definitions
Names
Soul
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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?
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Running
Lying
Night
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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.
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Men
Joy
Pathways
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Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.
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Men
Air
Animal
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