Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges, OMwas Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 October 1844
beauty hard love nor ready sat stood summer sure till train triumph
Beauty sat with me all the summer day, / Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; / Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, / Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
courting heard lady
I heard a linnet courting / His lady in the spring.
bring coming excited high hope next program
I'm excited about coming back to Meridian High School. I hope to bring the program to the next level.
assert earlier haunted reason sin title unknown
And Reason kens he herits in / A haunted house. Tenants unknown / Assert their squalid lease of sin / With earlier title than his own.
begins course setting tells
The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun.
animal men air
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...
lonely lying land
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.
lying valleys may
The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.
running lying night
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?
lying balance administration
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
love firsts praying
When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
beauty secret being-the-best
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
moon wind clouds
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.
spring light white
Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.