Robert Bridges Quotes
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West. - Robert Bridges
Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?
- Robert Bridges
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
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
- Robert Bridges
When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
- Robert Bridges
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
- Robert Bridges
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
The hill pines were sighing, / O'ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotted the pleasant May.
- Robert Bridges
The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun.
- Robert Bridges
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
- Robert Bridges
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