Why hast thou nothing in thy face? Thou idol of the human r… - Robert Bridges

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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.

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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that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see
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Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.

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

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. - Robert Bridges

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