Robert Bridges Quotes

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

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

Simple and brave, his faith awoke, Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I`d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

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.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru` all creation.

Were I a cloud I`d gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

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.