Robert Bridges Quotes about Lying

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

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

Robert Bridges

Lying, Magic, Accepted

"The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar". Book by Robert Bridges, 1917.

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

Robert Bridges

Lying, Fall, Men

"London Snow" l. 1 (1890)

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.

Robert Bridges

Lonely, Lying, Land

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

Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

Robert Bridges

Running, Lying, Night