Sarah Helen Whitman quotes

Sarah Helen Whitman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”
-- Sarah Helen Whitman

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Hours of Life: And Other Poems”, p.147

#Asters Quotes
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
-- Sarah Helen Whitman

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.60

#Summer Quotes #Dream Quotes #August Quotes
“Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.”
-- Sarah Helen Whitman

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

#Yellow Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Slumber Quotes
“The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.”
-- Sarah Helen Whitman

#Home Quotes #Wind Quotes #Shy Quotes

“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Hours of Life: And Other Poems”, p.147

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