Robert Bridges Poems
- 1. Winter Nightfall
The day begins to droop,-
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting sun.
... - 2. When Death To Either Shall Come
When Death to either shall come,-
I pray it be first to me,-
Be happy as ever at home,
If so, as I wish, it be.
... - 3. Spirits
Angel spirits of sleep,
White-robed, with silver hair,
In your meadows fair,
Where the willows weep,
... - 4. Pater Filio
Sense with keenest edge unusèd,
Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire;
Lovely feet as yet unbruisèd
On the ways of dark desire;
... - 5. On A Dead Child
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
Though cold and stark and bare,
The bloom and the charm of life doth awhile remain on thee.
... - 6. Nightingales
Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come,
And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom
Ye learn your song:
Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there,
... - 7. My Delight And Thy Delight
My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:
... - 8. Absence
When my love was away,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,
... - 9. A Passer-by
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?
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