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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 III
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BOOK IV
  
[dedication]
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5 LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890
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6 APRIL, 1885
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13 THE WINDMILL
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30 LAUS DEO
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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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[My spirit sang all day]

My spirit sang all day
O my joy.
Nothing my tongue could say,
Only My joy!
My heart an echo caught—
O my joy—
And spake, Tell me thy thought,
Hide not thy joy.
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My eyes gan peer around,—
O my joy—
What beauty hast thou found?
Shew us thy joy.
My jealous ears grew whist;—
O my joy—
Music from heaven is't,
Sent for our joy?
She also came and heard;
O my joy,
What, said she, is this word?
What is thy joy?
And I replied, O see,
O my joy,
'Tis thee, I cried, 'tis thee:
Thou art my joy.
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