Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2

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A compact collection of short lyrical poems that meditate on memory, seasonal change, love, and the natural world. Many pieces adopt an elegiac or contemplative tone, turning riverbanks, cliffs, gardens, and the sea into prompts for reflection on loss, longing, and the persistence of feeling. The verse mixes concise narrative moments, personified elements, and formal lyrical rhythms, producing musical and measured language. Poems are presented in grouped sections alongside newly gathered pieces and editorial notes, yielding a varied sequence of brief, reflective lyrics and conversational vignettes.

20

The summer trees are tempest-torn,

The hills are wrapped in a mantle wide

Of folding rain by the mad wind borne

Across the country side.

His scourge of fury is lashing down

The delicate-rankèd golden corn,

That never more shall rear its crown

And curtsey to the morn.

There shews no care in heaven to save

Man’s pitiful patience, or provide

A season for the season’s slave,

Whose trust hath toiled and died.

So my proud spirit in me is sad,

A wreck of fairer fields to mourn,

The ruin of golden hopes she had,

My delicate-rankèd corn.