The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas

Love not too much. But how, When thou hast made me such, And dost thy gifts bestow, How can I love too much? Though I must fear to lose, And drown my joy in care, With all its t...

With music endeth night's prisoning terror, 660 With flow'ry incense: Haste to salute the sun, That for the day's chase, like a huntsman, With flashing arms cometh o'er the moun...

_Prometheus coming on earth to give fire to men appears before the palace of Inachus in Argos on a festival of Zeus. He interrupts the ceremony by announcing fire and persuades...

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding, Whither away, fair rover, and wha...

What doth tempt you forth To drown in the south or shiver in the frosty north? What seek ye or find ye in your random flying, Ever soaring aloft, soaring and dying?

Hark to the merry birds, hark how they sing! Although 'tis not yet spring And keen the air; Hale Winter, half resigning ere he go, Doth to his heiress shew His kingdom fair.

Clear and gentle stream! Known and loved so long, That hast heard the song And the idle dream Of my boyish day; While I once again Down thy margin stray, In the selfsame strain...

Ocëanides are we, Nereids of the foam, But we left the sea 330 On the earth to roam With the fairest Queen That the world hath seen.-- Why amidst our play Was she sped away?--

Gay and lovely is earth, man's decorate dwelling; With fresh beauty ever varying hour to hour. As now bathed in azure joy she awakeneth With bright morn to the sun's life-giving...

This book consists of the Poems and Masks (as apart from the Dramas) contained in the collected editions of the Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, together with two groups of Lat...