Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England will keep her dearest jewel bright Last Line: She, seeing her face therein, shall not be ashamed Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Theater - England - 20th Century | ||||||||
Spoken by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson at the opening of the Theatre of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, May 27, 1921 ENGLAND will keep her dearest jewel bright, And see her sons like to their sires renown'd; Whose Shakespeare is with deathless Homer crown'd, Her freedom the world's hope throned in the height. All gifts of spirit are of such airy flight That if their fire be spent they fall to ground; Their virtue must with newborn life abound, And by young birth renew their old birthright. We workers therefore in this troublous age Would keep our beauty of language from misfeature, Presenting manners noble, and mirth unblamed: So Truth shall walk majestic on our stage, And when we hold the mirror up to Nature, She, seeing her face therein, shall not be ashamed | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APRIL, 1885 by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES ASIAN BIRDS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES DEJECTION by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES EROS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES LONDON SNOW by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES LOW BAROMETER by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES MATRES DOLOROSAE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES NIGHTINGALES by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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