Poetical works of Robert Bridges : excluding the eight dramas / [Robert Seymour Bridges].
- Robert Bridges
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Poetical works of Robert Bridges : excluding the eight dramas / [Robert Seymour Bridges]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![O high parental claim, that were not but for the knowing, O fateful bond of duty, O more than body that bore, The smile that guides me to right, the gaze that follows my going, How had I stray’d without thee! and yet how few will seek The spirit-hands, that heaven, in tender-free bestowing, Holds to her children, to guide the wandering and aid the weak. And Thee ! ah what of thee, thou lover of men ? if truly A painter had stell’d thee there, with thy lips ready to speak, In all-fathering passion to souls enchanted newly, —Tenderer call than of sire to son, or of lover to maiden,— Ever ready to speak to us, if we will hearken duly, ‘ Come, O come unto me, ye weary and heavy-laden ! ’ [1880.] 16 AN INVITATION TO THE OXFORD PAGEANT, JULY 1907 Fair lady of learning, playfellow of spring, Who to thy towery hospice in the vale Invitest all, with queenly claim to bring Scholars from every land within thy pale; If aught our pageantry may now avail To paint thine antique story to the eye, Inspire the scene, and bid thy herald cry Welcome to all, and to all comers hail! Come hither, then he crieth, and hail to all. Bow each his heart a pilgrim at her shrine, Whatever chance hath led you to my call, Ye that love pomp, and ye that seek a sign, (393)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31357222_0406.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
