Authors:

Robert Bridges Quotes

All Quotes Love Lying Magic

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

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

Good melody is never out of fashion

Robert Bridges (1927). “Collected Essays, Papers, Etc”, Georg Olms Verlag

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

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.185, Library of Alexandria

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

Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.208, Library of Alexandria

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them

Robert Bridges (1894). “The Growth of Love”

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

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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.

Elkin Mathews, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Richard Watson Dixon (1897). “Garland of New Poetry”

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.

Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”