Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Bridges. b. 1844832. My Delight and Thy Delight
MY delight and thy delight | |
Walking, like two angels white, | |
In the gardens of the night: | |
My desire and thy desire | |
Twining to a tongue of fire, | 5 |
Leaping live, and laughing higher: | |
Thro’ the everlasting strife | |
In the mystery of life. | |
Love, from whom the world begun, | |
Hath the secret of the sun. | 10 |
Love can tell, and love alone, | |
Whence the million stars were strewn, | |
Why each atom knows its own, | |
How, in spite of woe and death, | |
Gay is life, and sweet is breath: | 15 |
This he taught us, this we knew, | |
Happy in his science true, | |
Hand in hand as we stood | |
‘Neath the shadows of the wood, | |
Heart to heart as we lay | 20 |
In the dawning of the day. |