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
spiritual men mind
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.
anniversary turns
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.
love wise love-is
Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.
hope thinking world
I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
beauty adore
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them
names soul definitions
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.
men joy comfort
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.
song sweet flower
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!
sea sky white
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?
waking empty morrow
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
fashion melody
Good melody is never out of fashion
lying magic accepted
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
angel creation spouse
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
skills soul mind
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.