Quote #13
On such a night, when Air has loosed Its guardian grasp on blood and brain, Old terrors then of god or ghost Creep from their caves to life again.
More from Robert Bridges
- The constellated sounds ran sprinkling on earth's floor As the dark vault above with stars was spangled o'er.
- And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.
- Angels' song, comforting as the comfort of Christ When he spake tenderly to his sorrowful flock.
- When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
- Surely thy body is thy mind, For in thy face is nought to find, Only thy soft unchristened smile, That shadows neither love nor guile.
- Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the sky.
- Why hast thou nothing in thy face? Thou idol of the human race, Thou tyrant of the human heart, The flower of lovely youth that art.
- Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see, Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.