Robert Bridges

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins


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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…

Eros and Psyche


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Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass.The poem is…

The Growth of Love


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Robert Bridges, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1913, published three versions of his sonnet sequence, The Growth of Love:1876 - 24 sonn…

Short Poetry Collection 170


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This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-D…

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)


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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)


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The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)


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This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two par…

Short Poetry Collection 196


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This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2019.

The Testament of Beauty



Short Poetry Collection 044


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 044: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 176


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This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2018

Short Poetry Collection 175


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This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2017.

Short Poetry Collection 055


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 055: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 161


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This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2016.

Short Poetry Collection 208


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This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

Short Poetry Collection 069


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 069: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Short Poetry Collection 199


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This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2019.

To the United States of America


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In celebration of Independence Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of To the United States…

Short Poetry Collection 173


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This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.

Short Poetry Collection 207


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This is a collection of 70 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2020.

October and Other Poems


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This is a collection of poetry by Robert Bridges. This collection also contains some poems written right after World War I, reflecting the s…

Short Poetry Collection 146


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This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015.

Short Poetry Collection 202


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This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2020.

Nightingales


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Nightingales by Robert Bridges, published in "The Oxford Book of English Verse&…

Short Poetry Collection 251


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This is a collection of 39 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during April 2024.

Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love by Robert Bridges.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Au…

Purcell Ode and Other Poems


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Robert Bridges wrote the Ode to Music to mark the bicentenary of the death of Henry Purcell in 1695. - Summary by Alan MapstoneAdditional pr…