Robert Bridges — English Poet born on October 23, 1844, died on April 21, 1930

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame... (wikipedia)

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.