Poem by Robert Seymour Bridges

Shorter Poems. Book IV. 28. “My Spirit Kisseth Thine”

My spirit kisseth thine,
My spirit embraceth thee:
I feel thy being twine
Her graces over me,

  In the life-kindling fold
Of God’s breath; where on high,
In furthest space untold
Like a lost world I lie:

  And o’er my dreaming plains
Lightens, most pale and fair,
A moon that never wanes;
Or more, if I compare,

  Like what the shepherd sees
On late mid-winter dawns,
When thro’ the branchèd trees,
O’er the white-frosted lawns,

  The huge unclouded sun,
Surprising the world whist,
Is all uprisen thereon,
Golden with melting mist.

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2. Shorter Poems. Book III. 4. On a Dead Child
3. Shorter Poems. Book II. 8. Spring. Ode I
4. Shorter Poems. Book II. 9. Spring. Ode II
5. Shorter Poems. Book IV. 21. “The Birds That Sing on Autumn Eves”

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