Phoebe Cary quotes
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“Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.”
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“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today”
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“And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175
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“Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175
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“I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.37
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“Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.”
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“Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ...”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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“And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202
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“For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.164
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“But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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“Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1873). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.235
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“O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1854). “Poems and Parodies”, p.58
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“Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?”
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“Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face ...”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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“For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.174
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“Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.”
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“One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.48
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“O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.”
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“I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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“Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.118
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“For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.323
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“There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90
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“Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!”
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“But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.”
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“You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.”
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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