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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![As when all around Ripened pods of furze Split in the parching sun Their dry caps one by one, And shed their seeds on the ground. —Ah ! what clouds arise. Away ! O come away. The wind-wafted smoke, Blowing all astray, Blinds and pricks my eyes. Ah ! I choke, I choke. —All the midst is rent: See, the twigs are all By the flaming spent White and gold, and fall. How they writhe, resist, Blacken, flake, and twist, Snap in gold and fall. —See the stars that mount, Momentary bright Flitting specks of light More than eye can count. Insects of the air, As in summer night Show a fire in flying Flickering here and there, Waving past and dying. —Look, a common cone Of the mountain pine Solid gold is grown; Till its scales outshine, Standing each alone In the spiral rows Of their fair design, All the brightest shows Of the sun’s decline. (42) [Prometheus, after writing h is name on the al¬ tar, goes out un¬ observed,,] *33° 1340](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31357222_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
