Spirits by Robert Bridges

Published: Dec. 24, 2007, 8:30 a.m.

b"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?"