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Robert Seymour Bridges

Biography Robert Seymour Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) was Poet Laureate 1913-30. Edward, 1st Baron Bridges (1892-1969), a civil servant, was his son. Details are given in G.L. McKay, "A bibliography of Robert Bridges" (1933) and the "Dictionary of National Biography".

Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet noted for his technical mastery of prosody and for his sponsorship of the poetry of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins. Born into a prosperous family, Bridges went to Eton College and then to Oxford, where he met Hopkins. His edition of Hopkins' poetry that appeared in 1916 rescued it from obscurity. From 1869 until 1882 Bridges worked as a medical student and physician in London hospitals. In 1884 he married Mary Monica Waterhouse, and he spent the rest of his life in virtually unbroken domestic seclusion, first at Yattendon, Berkshire, then at Boar's Hill, devoting himself almost religiously to poetry, contemplation, and the study of prosody. Although he published several long poems and poetic dramas, his reputation rests upon the lyrics collected in Shorter Poems (1890, 1894). New Verse (1925) contains experiments using a metre based on syllables rather than accents. He used this form for his long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty, published on his 85th birthday. Bridges was poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930.

For Beauty Being the Best of All We Know

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I Have Loved Flowers That Fade

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A Passer-by

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Absence

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Awake, My Heart

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Come Si Quando

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Elegy on a Lady, whom Grief for the Death of her Betrothed Killed

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Emily Bronte

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Eros

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Fortunatus Nimium

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From ‘The Testament of Beauty’

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I Love All Beauteous Things

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I Shall Never Love the Snow Again

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I Will Not Let Thee Go

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In Autumn Moonlight, When The White Air Wan

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London Snow

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Lord Kitchner

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Low Barometer

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Melancholia

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My Delight and Thy Delight

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Nightingales

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Nimium Fortunatus (The Good Life)

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Noel: Christmas Eve 1913

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North Wind in October

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On a Dead Child

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Pater Filio

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So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn

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Spirits

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Spring Goeth all in White

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The Affliction Of Richard

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The Evening Darkens Over

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The Growth of Love

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The Hill Pines Were Sighing

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There is a Hill

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To Catullus

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To Joseph Joachim

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To the President of Magdalen College, Oxford

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To The United States Of America

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To Thos. Floyd

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When Death to Either Shall Come

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While Yet We Wait for Spring, And From The Dry

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Winter Nightfall

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