| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
| |
| Robert Bridges. b. 1844 |
| |
| 832. My Delight and Thy Delight |
| |
| MY delight and thy delight | |
| Walking, like two angels white, | |
| In the gardens of the night: | |
| |
| My desire and thy desire | |
| Twining to a tongue of fire, | 5 |
| Leaping live, and laughing higher: | |
| |
| Thro' the everlasting strife | |
| In the mystery of life. | |
| |
| |
| Love, from whom the world begun, | |
| Hath the secret of the sun. | 10 |
| |
| Love can tell, and love alone, | |
| Whence the million stars were strewn, | |
| Why each atom knows its own, | |
| How, in spite of woe and death, | |
| Gay is life, and sweet is breath: | 15 |
| |
| This he taught us, this we knew, | |
| Happy in his science true, | |
| Hand in hand as we stood | |
| 'Neath the shadows of the wood, | |
| Heart to heart as we lay | 20 |
| In the dawning of the day. | |
|
|
