Felicia Hemans quotes
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“There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.77, Broadview Press
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“I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.”
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“Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384
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“The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : "The Homes of England" l. 1 (1849)
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“We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1872). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.382
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“Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, 1922.
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“Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1839). “The Works: With a Memoir of Her Life, by Her Sister : in Seven Volumes. ¬The forest sanctuary ¬[u.a.]”, p.178
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“There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1839). “The Works of Mrs Hemans;: With a Memoir of Her Life,”, p.77
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“Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.”
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“There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.”
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“Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1853). “Poetical Works”, p.125
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“Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.282
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“Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.”
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“Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Dorothea Hemans, “The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers In New England”
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“Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.”
-- Felicia HemansSource : Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press
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