Quotes from Robert Bridges

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

When Death to either shall come— I pray it be first to me.

I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air: I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest, And anchor queen of the strange shipping there, Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare: Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest. (A Passer-by)

The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that by me sweep.

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.

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 could never change.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

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.

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 love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them

Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

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.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.