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

  Felicia Hemans

  Mother, Strong, Heart

  Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.77, Broadview Press

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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.

  Felicia Hemans

  Beauty, Gratitude, Eye

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1849). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.370

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

  Felicia Hemans

  Past, Spirit, Forget

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

  Felicia Hemans

  Courage, Heart, Suffering

  Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press

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

  Felicia Hemans

  Summer, Flower, Laughing

  Felicia Hemans (1865). “Select Poetical Works”, p.274

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• We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

  Felicia Hemans

  Sympathy, Kindred

  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 Hemans

  Death, Passing Away, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, 1922.

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• Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest-
  Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave!
  The immortal courage in the human breast
  Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave
  To camp midst rock and cave,
  Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne,
  Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!

  Felicia Hemans

  Easter, Struggle, Clouds

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

  Felicia Hemans

  Forget, Forgetfulness

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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 Hemans

  Summer, Brother, Grief

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384

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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 Hemans

  Strength, Heart, Dwelling

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1839). “The Works of Mrs Hemans;: With a Memoir of Her Life,”, p.77

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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 Hemans

  Freedom, Holy Ground, Soil

  Felicia Dorothea Hemans, “The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers In New England”

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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 Hemans

  Beautiful, Home, Land

  "The Homes of England" l. 1 (1849)

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• Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

  Felicia Hemans

  Firefly, Blow, Orange

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• 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.

  Felicia Hemans

  War, Jewels, Sea

  Felicia Hemans (1850). “Records of Woman, with Other Poems”, p.135, University Press of Kentucky

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

  Felicia Hemans

  Flower, Passion, Thinking

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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.

  Felicia Hemans

  Gone, Hats, Stills

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• Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

  Felicia Hemans

  Death, Seasons

  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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• 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 Hemans

  Song, Stars, Spring

  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 Hemans

  Christmas, Lovely Voice, Sky

  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.

  Felicia Hemans

  Life, Art, Alas

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