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“Weep not today: why should this sadness be?
Learn in present fears
To o'ermaster those tears
That unhindered conquer thee.”
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Learn in present fears
To o'ermaster those tears
That unhindered conquer thee.”
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“The evening darkens over
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.”
― Poems
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.”
― Poems
“When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.”
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“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
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I pray it be first to me.”
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“I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest,
Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air:
I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest,
And anchor queen of the strange shipping there,
Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare:
Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest
Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair
Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest.
(A Passer-by)”
― Poetical Works of Robert Bridges
Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air:
I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest,
And anchor queen of the strange shipping there,
Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare:
Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest
Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair
Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest.
(A Passer-by)”
― Poetical Works of Robert Bridges
“The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and heed
The dreams that by me sweep.”
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Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and heed
The dreams that by me sweep.”
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“All emotions,
Whether of gods or men, all loves and passions,
Are of two kinds; they are either inform'd by wisdom,
To reason obedient, - or they are unconducted,
Flames of the burning life.”
― Demeter: A Mask
Whether of gods or men, all loves and passions,
Are of two kinds; they are either inform'd by wisdom,
To reason obedient, - or they are unconducted,
Flames of the burning life.”
― Demeter: A Mask
“The words of gods and men are names of things
And thoughts accustom'd : but of things unknown
And unimagin'd are no words at all.”
― Demeter: A Mask
And thoughts accustom'd : but of things unknown
And unimagin'd are no words at all.”
― Demeter: A Mask
“Ah! can it be that out of sorrow's night,
From tears, from yearning pain, from long despair,
Into joy's sunlight I shall come again?”
― Demeter: A Mask
From tears, from yearning pain, from long despair,
Into joy's sunlight I shall come again?”
― Demeter: A Mask
“If aid
I cannot, I can mightily avenge.
On irremediable wrong I shrink not
To pile immortal ruin, there to lie
As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less
For that no memory of my deed survive,
Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.”
― Demeter: A Mask
I cannot, I can mightily avenge.
On irremediable wrong I shrink not
To pile immortal ruin, there to lie
As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less
For that no memory of my deed survive,
Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.”
― Demeter: A Mask
