Felicia Hemans Quotes

There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

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"?

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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?

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?