Frances Sargent Osgood Quotes

• Within the oyster's shell uncouth
  The purest pearl may hide,
  Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
  Within that rough outside.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Heart, Oysters, May

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• No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

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• Love is the greatest of educators.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Love, Love Is, Educator

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• And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
  Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul--
  'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
  Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Music, Sweet, Bird

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• Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Work, Lying, Heart

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• Better confide and be deceiv'd,
  A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
  Than once accuse the innocent,
  Or let suspicion mar repose.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Mars, Innocent, Suspicion

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• Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
  Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
  Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dark, Water, Watches

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.44

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• To hallow'd duty
  Here with a loyal and heroic heart,
  Bind we our lives.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Heart, Loyal, Heroic

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• Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
  Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Prayer, Noble, Deeds

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• Did you ever hear
  Of the frolic fairies dear?
  They're a blessed little race,
  Peeping up in fancy's face,
  In the valley, on the hill,
  By the fountain and the rill;
  Laughing out between the leaves
  That the loving summer weaves.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Summer, Blessed, Race

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• An exile, ill in heart and frame,--
  A wanderer, weary of the way;--
  A stranger, without love's sweet claim
  On any heart, go where I may!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Heart, May

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.134

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• He whom nature thus bereaves,
  Is ever fancy's favourite child;
  For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
  Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Children, Fancy

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• With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Strength, Sorrow, Fidelity

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221

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• Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
  That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
  That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
  That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
  Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,--
  Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Heart, Names

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.365

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• And yet we check and chide
  The airy angels as they float about us,
  With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
  The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Children, Angel, World

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• Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us;
  Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
  Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
  Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill.
  Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
  Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;
  Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow!
  Work with a stout heart and resolute will!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Lying, Heart, Waiting

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• Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sorrow, World, Sirens

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