Nightingales

Nightingales

by Robert Bridges

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Nightingales by Robert Bridges, published in "The Oxford Book of English Verse" in 1919. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 14, 2008.

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Robert Seymour Bridges OM was an English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and...

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