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Robert Bridges Biography

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was 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.

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The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

Day, Lying, May, Mist, Valleys

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation. . it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Accepted, Created, Lying, Magic, Satifies

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

Administration, Balance, Conduct, Lying

O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

High, Hope, Look, Looks, Tire, Youth

Spring goeth all in white,
Crowned with milk-white may:
In fleecy flocks of light
O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

Clouds, Fleecy, Light, Spring

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.

Land, Lonely, Lying, Pass, Seen, Unwelcomed

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.

Air, Animal, Dumb, Hath, Men, Speeded

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

Angel, Angels, Delight, Garden, Like, Night

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Come, Death, Firsts, Love, Pray, Sentimental

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

Empty, Morrow, Seemlike, Waking, Words

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.

Brilliant, Hills, Shady, Silver, Thames, Thickets

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

Beauty, Clouds, Doth, Heaven, Hide, Sweet

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

Angel, Creation, God, Spouse, Thru

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

Firsts, Guess, Hard, Love, Masters

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!

Flower, Honeymoon, Hourmy, Song, Sweet, Tentsrich

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?

Fair, Fearest, Sea, Sky, White

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.

Conditions, Definitions, Names, Soul, Termfor, Wider

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.

Mind, Music, Patient, Skills, Soul, Thy

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.

Change, Day, Growing, Old, Told, Truth Is

Good melody is never out of fashion

Fashion, Good, Melody

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