Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas1912 |
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... earth , that when yon noontide sun Rose from the sea at morning I was by , And unperceived of Hêlios plunged the point I ' the burning axle , and withdrew a tongue . Of breathing flame , which lives to leap on earth For man the father ...
... earth , that when yon noontide sun Rose from the sea at morning I was by , And unperceived of Hêlios plunged the point I ' the burning axle , and withdrew a tongue . Of breathing flame , which lives to leap on earth For man the father ...
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... Earth Came Rhea at fall of night To hide a wondrous birth From the Sire's unfathering sight . The halls of Cronos rang With omens of coming ill , And the mad Curêtes danced and sang Adown the slopes of the hill . Then all the peaks of ...
... Earth Came Rhea at fall of night To hide a wondrous birth From the Sire's unfathering sight . The halls of Cronos rang With omens of coming ill , And the mad Curêtes danced and sang Adown the slopes of the hill . Then all the peaks of ...
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Robert Bridges. Then friendly night arose To succour Earth , and spread Her mantle o'er the snows And quenched their rosy red ; But in the east upsprings Another light on them , Selêné with white wings . And hueless diadem . Little could ...
Robert Bridges. Then friendly night arose To succour Earth , and spread Her mantle o'er the snows And quenched their rosy red ; But in the east upsprings Another light on them , Selêné with white wings . And hueless diadem . Little could ...
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... Earth said , Fair to see Is mine and yields to none , I have grown for her joy a sacred tree , With apples of gold thereon . 260 270 Then Hêra , when she heard what Earth had given , 280 Smiled for her joy , and longed and came to see ...
... Earth said , Fair to see Is mine and yields to none , I have grown for her joy a sacred tree , With apples of gold thereon . 260 270 Then Hêra , when she heard what Earth had given , 280 Smiled for her joy , and longed and came to see ...
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... Earth had made And fenced with groves around . And in the midst it grew Alone , the priceless stem , As careful , clear and true As graving on a gem . Nature had kissèd Art And borne a child to stir With jealousy the heart Of heaven's ...
... Earth had made And fenced with groves around . And in the midst it grew Alone , the priceless stem , As careful , clear and true As graving on a gem . Nature had kissèd Art And borne a child to stir With jealousy the heart Of heaven's ...
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Æneas Anchises Aphrodite Argeia art thou Athena awake awhile beauty beneath birds bright clouds coud crown dance dark death delight Demeter desire divine dost doth drave dream earth Eros eternal evermore eyes face fair fair isle fancy fate fear fire flame fled flowers gentle goddess gods gold golden grace Hades hand happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly 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 Psyche Queen ROBERT BRIDGES SEMICHORUS shade sing smile song sorrow soul spirit spring stept stood stream summer sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thought thro toil trees truth twas unto Vex'd voice wert wisdom wonder youth Zeus
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Page 230 - 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 303 - So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. But I can tell — let truth be told— That love will change in growing old ; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. And in the end 'twill come to pass Quite to forget what once he was, Nor even in fancy to recall The pleasure that was all in all. His little spring, that sweet we found...
Page 345 - WHEN Death to either shall come, — I pray it be first to me, — Be happy as ever at home, If so, as I wish, it be. Possess thy heart, my own ; And sing to the child on thy knee, Or read to thyself alone The songs that I made for thee.
Page 261 - 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!
Page 337 - 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 275 - 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 294 - 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 405 - 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 239 - TRIOLET ALL women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. 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 239 - 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.