Quotes by Robert Bridges

About Robert Bridges:

Robert Seymour Bridges is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame.
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When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

Robert Bridges

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

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

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

Robert Bridges

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

Robert Bridges

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

Robert Bridges

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.

Robert Bridges

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Bridges
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1844
  • DiedApril 21, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author