BEAUTEOUS THINGS

 "Beauty is the highest of all these influences. wakens spiritual emotion in the mind of man...." 
                    -Robert Bridges (Testament of Beauty 1929)

 I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS by Robert Bridges
                                                             (1844-1930)

 I love all beauteous things

 I seek and adore them

 God hath no better praise

 And man in his hasty days

 Is honoured for them

 I too will something make

 And joy in the making

 Although tomorrow it seem

 Like the empty words of a dream

 Remembered on waking

  Bridges almost became a minister at one point, but decided he wanted to be a doctor more. One of his children, Elizabeth Daryush, became a poet.

 He wrote  sobering  poems during and after WW1, after his son was severely wounded. He was working on a piece called "Testament to Beauty", 1924. 

 In 1926 his daughter , Margaret. died, then he completed the work, all the time finding it eased his broken heart..

  It was published Oct 1929, six months before he died.

 Photographs  Fall 2019  
    "I love all Beauteous Things from 1001 Beautiful Things 1944 edition" This has also been set to a Hymn and was sung for the Queen's 90th birthday celebratation.