Spirits by Robert Bridges
Bridges read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n \n Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\n \n ---------------------------------------------------\n \n Spirits\n by Robert Bridges (1844 \u2013 1930)\n \n Angel spirits of sleep,\n White-robed, with silver hair,\n In your meadows fair,\n Where the willows weep,\n And the sad moonbeam\n On the gliding stream\n Writes her scatter'd dream:\n Angel spirits of sleep,\n Dancing to the weir\n In the hollow roar\n Of its waters deep;\n Know ye how men say\n That ye haunt no more\n Isle and grassy shore\n With your moonlit play;\n That ye dance not here,\n White-robed spirits of sleep,\n All the summer night\n Threading dances light?