366. My Delight and Thy Delight by Robert Bridges
b"R Bridges read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nMy Delight and Thy Delight\\nby Robert Bridges (1844 \\u2013 1930)\\n\\nMy delight and thy delight\\nWalking, like two angels white,\\nIn the gardens of the night:\\n\\nMy desire and thy desire\\nTwining to a tongue of fire,\\nLeaping live, and laughing higher:\\n\\nThro' the everlasting strife\\nIn the mystery of life.\\n\\nLove, from whom the world begun,\\nHath the secret of the sun.\\n\\nLove can tell, and love alone,\\nWhence the million stars were strewn,\\nWhy each atom knows its own,\\nHow, in spite of woe and deat,\\nGay is life, and sweet is breath:\\n\\nThis he taught us, this we knew,\\nHappy in his science true,\\nHand in hand as we stood\\n'Neath the shadows of the wood,\\nHeart to heart as we lay\\nIn the dawning of the day.\\n\\nFirst aired: 2 December 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"