from 1913 to 1930.
Bridges was born in Walmer
, Kent
, in the UK, and educated at Eton College
and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital
, intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry.
He practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series of highly critical remarks about the Victorian medical establishment) and subsequently as a full physician to the Great (later Royal) Northern Hospital.
For beauty being the best of all we knowSums up the unsearchable and secret aimsOf nature.
They gathered up the crystal manna to freezeTheir tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
Surely thy body is thy mind,For in thy face is nought to find,Only thy soft unchristened smile,That shadows neither love nor guile.
Angels’ song, comfortingas the comfort of ChristWhen he spake tenderlyto his sorrowful flock.