Poem by Robert Seymour Bridges

Shorter Poems. Book I. 8. “I Found To-day out Walking”

I found to-day out walking
  The flower my love loves best.
What, when I stooped to pluck it,
  Could dare my hand arrest?

Was it a snake lay curling
  About the root’s thick crown?
Or did some hidden bramble
  Tear my hand reaching down?

There was no snake uncurling,
  And no thorn wounded me;
’Twas my heart checked me, sighing
  She is beyond the sea.

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2. Shorter Poems. Book IV. 21. “The Birds That Sing on Autumn Eves”
3. Shorter Poems. Book III. 14. “The Full Moon Her Cloudless Skies”
4. Shorter Poems. Book II. 12. Morning Hymn
5. Shorter Poems. Book III. 1. “O My Vague Desires!”

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