And now impatiently despairest, see How nought is changed: … - Robert Bridges

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And now impatiently despairest, see
How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired
Splended for others' eyes if not for thee:
Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled:
If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.

Robert Bridges

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Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet. He was poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.

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Alternative Names: Robert Seymour Bridges • Robert S. Bridges

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John Keats Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Letitia Elizabeth Landon Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth

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Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.

The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
Is fallen back in the west.

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

And now impatiently despairest, see How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired Splended for others' eyes if not for thee: Not love or beauty or y… - Robert Bridges

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