Robert Bridges (1844-1930). Revenants. Robert Bridges, ed. 1916. The Spirit of Man: An Anthology

Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.

Revenants

Robert Bridges (1844–1930)


AT 1 dead of unseen night ghosts of the departed assembling
Flit to the graves, where each in body had burial.
Ah, then revisiting my sad heart, their desolate tomb,
Troop the desires and loves vainly buried long-ago.

Note 1. From the French. Revenants. ‘Poems in classical prosody’. R. Bridges, p. 446. [back]