POEM "All Beauteous Things" By Robert Bridges

All Beauteous Things

By Robert Bridges

 

 

                I love all beauteous things,

                I seek and adore them;

               God hath no better praise,

               And man in his hasty days

                           Is honoured for them.

 

                         I too will something make

                             And joy in the making;

                         Although to-marrow it seem

                         Like empty words of a dream

                          Remembered on walking

 

 

Introduction

 

Robert Bridges was born on 1844. He died on 1930. He is better known as

The friend and mentor of the poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the most original and intellectual poets of the century. It was he who himself became poet laureate who selected and published Hopkins’ poetry in 1918, thirty years after his death. He is one of the greatest metrical scholars of English poetry. All beauteous things is a simple poem celebrating the beautiful creations of god and man. The poet also resolves to make a contribution to this, but realizes it is like a dream where it is easy to dream beautiful things but difficult to make them in real life.