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Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas

Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930)

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Prometheus the Firegiver
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DEMETER
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Eros & Psyche
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Shorter Poems
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BOOK I
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BOOK II
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BOOK IV
  
[dedication]
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6 APRIL, 1885
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13 THE WINDMILL
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BOOK V
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New Poems
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Later Poems
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Poems in Classical Prosody
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October & OTHER POEMS
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New Verse
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Two Pieces

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17

[The idle life I lead]

The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and heed
The dreams that by me sweep
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And still of all my dreams
In turn so swiftly past,
Each in its fancy seems
A nobler than the last.
And every eve I say,
Noting my step in bliss,
That I have known no day
In all my life like this.
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