And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before. Robert Bridges More Quotes by Robert Bridges More Quotes From Robert Bridges I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. Robert Bridges garden summer clouds 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. Robert Bridges music skills soul Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. Robert Bridges spouse creation angel O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire. Robert Bridges tire youth looks When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master. Robert Bridges masters love firsts 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. Robert Bridges men lying fall 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. Robert Bridges april sweet firsts 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. Robert Bridges truth-is growing change Good melody is never out of fashion Robert Bridges melody fashion Since to be loved endures, To love is wise. Robert Bridges wise love-is love When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me. Robert Bridges sentimental love firsts Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray. Robert Bridges light clouds spring 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. Robert Bridges hills silver brilliant Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow. Robert Bridges clouds sweet heaven 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. Robert Bridges up-in-the-air skirts clouds Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created. Robert Bridges accepted magic lying To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking. Robert Bridges morrow empty waking 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? Robert Bridges white sea sky 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. Robert Bridges air animal men 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. Robert Bridges spiritual mind men
