Elizabeth Chase Allen quotes
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“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!”
-- Elizabeth Chase AllenSource : "Rock Me to Sleep" l. 1 (1860)
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“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!”
-- Elizabeth Chase AllenSource : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”
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“Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.”
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“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.”
-- Elizabeth Chase AllenSource : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Until Death”
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“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!”
-- Elizabeth Chase AllenSource : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Rock Me To Sleep”
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“We do not die with those we mourn.”
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen
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Source : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press
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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books