Elizabeth Chase Allen Quotes:

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

source: - "Rock Me to Sleep" l. 1 (1860)

Topics: Time, Children, Night, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow,- Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now!

source: - Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”

Topics: Famous Love, Strong, Blessed

Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.

Topics: Sexy, Stars, Struggle

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

source: - Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Until Death”

Topics: Giving, Stones, Tardiness, Recompense

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

source: - Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Rock Me To Sleep”

Topics: Years, Giving, Childhood, Recompense

We do not die with those we mourn.

Topics: Mourn, Dies