Robert Seymour Bridges Quotes

• Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.

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  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Garden

• And I replied unto all these things which encompass the door of my flesh, ‘Ye have told me of my god, that ye are not he: tell me something of him’. And they cried all with a great voice, ‘He made us’. My questioning them was my mind’s desire, and their Beauty was their answer.

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• All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.

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• 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. 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.

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• I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

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  Tags in Hope, Live, Come

• My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

  Robert Seymour Bridges

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Night, White

• Were I a cloud I’d gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Air, Fly

• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

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  Tags in Summer, Rainbow

• 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 Seymour Bridges

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Strange

• When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

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  Tags in Hard, Guess

Robert Seymour Bridges (10)

Birth:	23rd October, 1844
Death:	21st April, 1930
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, in the UK, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry.

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