Quote #2
For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
More from Robert Bridges
- Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shudder…
- When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loo…
- They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing; Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to…
- Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
- I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them.
- To-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking.
- My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
- 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.