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Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Robert Bridges

Beauty, Secret, Being The Best

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

Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.

Robert Bridges

Anniversary, Wedding Anniversary, Turns

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

The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

Robert Bridges

Moon, Clouds, Wind

Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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

Robert Bridges

Lying, Balance, Administration

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.

Robert Bridges

Names, Soul, Definitions

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

Robert Bridges

Angel, Night, Garden

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

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?

Robert Bridges

Sea, Sky, White

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