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
sweet clouds heaven
Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
looks youth tire
O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.
lying fall men
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.
up-in-the-air clouds skirts
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.
change growing truth-is
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.
sweet firsts strange
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.
love firsts masters
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
summer garden clouds
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
home moon shadow
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
angel night garden
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
brilliant hills silver
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.