Robert Bridges
1844–1930
Best-known poems
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I Have Loved Flowers That Fade
I have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made … -
Asian Birds
In this May-month, by grace
of heaven, things shoot apace.
The waiting multitude …
All poems (16)
- A Passer-byWhither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,
- Asian BirdsIn this May-month, by grace
- For a Novel of Hall Caine’sAfter Kipling
- I Have Loved Flowers That FadeWithin whose magic tents
- James McCoshYoung to the end through sympathy with youth,
- My Delight and Thy DelightWalking, like two angels white,
- Nightingalesbeautiful must be the mountains whence ye come,
- On a Dead ChildPerfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
- Pater FilioSense with keenest edge unusèd,
- SpiritsAngel spirits of sleep,
- The Sea-PoppyA Poppy grows upon the shore
- The Unillumined VergeThey tell you that Death ’s at the turn of the road,
- When Death to Either shall comeI pray it be first to me,—
- Winter NightfallThe day begins to droop,—
- “So sweet love seemed”So sweet love seemed that April morn,
- “The Unillumined Verge”To a Friend Dying
