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 …

- Robert Bridges

Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speed…

- Robert Bridges

O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

- Robert Bridges

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

- Robert Bridges

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying…

- Robert Bridges

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.

- Robert Bridges

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

- Robert Bridges

Good melody is never out of fashion

- Robert Bridges

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

- Robert Bridges