Quote #16
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the sky.
More from Robert Bridges
- When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
- Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see, Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.
- And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.
- The storm is over, the land hushes to rest: The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, Is fallen back in the west.
- 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…
- The broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and f…
- The constellated sounds ran sprinkling on earth's floor As the dark vault above with stars was spangled o'er.
- When Death to either shall come- I pray it be first to me.