Robert Bridges

Eros and Psyche

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Robert Bridges



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…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Robert Bridges



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

The Growth of Love

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Robert Bridges



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

The Testament of Beauty


Robert Bridges



To the United States of America

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Robert Bridges



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

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…

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&…

Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love

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Robert Bridges



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



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