Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Excluding the Eight DramasH. Frowde, 1912 - 472 pages |
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... crown to swelling root It mocked the goddess ' praise , The green enamelled sprays , The emblazoned golden fruit . 300 310 [ They dance And ' neath the tree , with hair and zone unbound , The fair Hesperides aye danced around , And Ægle ...
... crown to swelling root It mocked the goddess ' praise , The green enamelled sprays , The emblazoned golden fruit . 300 310 [ They dance And ' neath the tree , with hair and zone unbound , The fair Hesperides aye danced around , And Ægle ...
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... crown , Though wan and dolorous and crooked things Have made their home with thee , thy good shall live . Know thy desire : and know that if thou seek it , And seek , and seek , and fear not , thou shalt find . SEM . ( youths ) . Is ...
... crown , Though wan and dolorous and crooked things Have made their home with thee , thy good shall live . Know thy desire : and know that if thou seek it , And seek , and seek , and fear not , thou shalt find . SEM . ( youths ) . Is ...
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... crown the hasting hours , Changing their special garlands as they choose . 1250 1260 O spirit of rage and might , 1270 Who canst unchain the links of winter stark , And bid earth's stubborn metals flow like oil , Her porphyrous heart ...
... crown the hasting hours , Changing their special garlands as they choose . 1250 1260 O spirit of rage and might , 1270 Who canst unchain the links of winter stark , And bid earth's stubborn metals flow like oil , Her porphyrous heart ...
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... crown our king's desire With his gift of golden fire . 1420 SEMICHORUS . My heart , my heart is freed . Now can I sing . I loose a shaft from my bow , 1430 A song from my heart to heaven , and watch it speed . It revels in the air , and ...
... crown our king's desire With his gift of golden fire . 1420 SEMICHORUS . My heart , my heart is freed . Now can I sing . I loose a shaft from my bow , 1430 A song from my heart to heaven , and watch it speed . It revels in the air , and ...
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... . The Chorus sing and crown Persephone with flowers . DRAMATIS PERSONÆ } HADES . DEMETER . PERSEPHONE . ATHENA . ARTEMIS . HERMES . Chorus of } OCEANIDES . DEMETER HADES . I AM the King of Hell , ( 50 ) ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY.
... . The Chorus sing and crown Persephone with flowers . DRAMATIS PERSONÆ } HADES . DEMETER . PERSEPHONE . ATHENA . ARTEMIS . HERMES . Chorus of } OCEANIDES . DEMETER HADES . I AM the King of Hell , ( 50 ) ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY.
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Aphrodite Argeia art thou Athena beauty beneath birds bright clouds coud crown dance dark death delight Demeter desire divine dost doth drave dream earth Eleusis Eros eternal evermore eyes face fair faln fancy fate fear fire flame fled flowers gentle goddess gods gold golden grace Hades hand happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly Hera Hermes honour hope Inachus live love's lover man's mighty moon morn mortal Muse neath night nought o'er Oceanides passion peace Persephone pity pleasure Poseidon praise Prometheus Psyche queen ROBERT BRIDGES SEMICHORUS shade sing smile song sorrow soul spirit spring stept stood stream summer sweet tears tell temple thee thine things thou art thou hast thought thro toil trees truth twas unto Vex'd voice Voltaire wert wisdom wonder youth Zeus
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Page 232 - I will not let thee go. Ends all our month-long love in this? Can it be summed up so, Quit in a single kiss? I will not let thee go. I will not let thee go. If thy words...
Page 263 - I HAVE loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents : A honeymoon delight, — A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour : — My song be like a flower ! I have loved airs, that die Before their charm is writ Along a liquid sky Trembling to welcome it.
Page 277 - AWAKE, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the sky: unrisen lustres slake The o'ertaken moon. Awake, O heart, awake! She too that loveth awaketh and hopes for thee: Her eyes already have sped the shades that flee, Already they watch the path thy feet shall take: Awake, 0 heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
Page 339 - MY delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night : My desire and thy desire Twining to a tongue of fire, Leaping live, and laughing higher ; Thro' the everlasting strife In the mystery of life. Love, from whom the world begun, Hath the secret of the sun. Love can tell, and love alone, Whence the million stars were strewn, Why each atom knows its own, How, in spite of woe and death, Gay is life, and sweet is breath : This...
Page 191 - For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature, and on joys whose earthly names Were never told can form and sense bestow ; And man hath sped his instinct to outgo The step of science ; and against her shames Imagination stakes out heavenly claims, Building a tower above the head of woe.3 1 The Sense of Beauty, p.
Page 296 - YE thrilled me once, ye mournful strains, Ye anthems of plaintive woe, My spirit was sad when I was young ; Ah sorrowful long-ago ! But since I have found the beauty of joy I have done with proud dismay : For howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his art is gay.
Page 311 - Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there, Among the flowers, which in that heavenly air Bloom the year long! Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams: Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams...
Page 407 - Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue, In fair desire thine earth-born joy renew. Live thou thy life beneath the making sun Till Beauty, Truth, and Love in thee are one. Thro...
Page 241 - If nought seem better, nothing 's worse : All women born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing.
Page 241 - WHEN first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master ; Of more than common friendliness When first we met we did not guess. Who could foretell this sore distress, This irretrievable disaster When first we met ? — We did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.