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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 IV
  
[dedication]
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5 LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890
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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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20

[The summer trees are tempest-torn]

The summer trees are tempest-torn,
The hills are wrapped in a mantle wide
Of folding rain by the mad wind borne
Across the country side.
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His scourge of fury is lashing down
The delicate-ranked golden corn,
That never more shall rear its crown
And curtsey to the morn.
There shews no care in heaven to save
Man's pitiful patience, or provide
A season for the season's slave,
Whose trust hath toiled and died.
So my proud spirit in me is sad,
A wreck of fairer fields to mourn,
The ruin of golden hopes she had,
My delicate-ranked corn.
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