Phoebe Cary Quotes

• Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

  Phoebe Cary

  Reading, Light, Bridal Shower

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• All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

  Phoebe Cary

  Life, Blessing, Today

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• Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

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  Forgiveness, Thinking, Giving

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.153

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• You may wear your virtues as a crown,
  As you walk through life serenely,
  And grace your simple rustic gown
  With a beauty more than queenly.
  Though only one for you shall care,
  One only speak your praises;
  And you never wear in your shining hair,
  A richer flower than daisies.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Simple, Hair

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

  Phoebe Cary

  Courage, Giving Up, Fighting

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175

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• Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

  Phoebe Cary

  Wise, Thinking, Shadow

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

  Phoebe Cary

  Beautiful, Angel, Youth

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• Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
  Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
  The burdens laid upon our mortal being
  Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

  Phoebe Cary

  Heart, Bears, Care

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• I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

  Phoebe Cary

  Love Is, Thinking, Light

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.37

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• Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

  Phoebe Cary

  Birthday, Heart, Soul

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.118

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• For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.

  Phoebe Cary

  Christmas, Jesus, Children

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.323

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• Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

  Phoebe Cary

  Running, Book, Rejection

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• One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

  Phoebe Cary

  Home, Today, Solemn

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.48

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• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.

  Phoebe Cary

  Military, Tasks, Lips

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175

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• Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Bed, Valleys

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

  Phoebe Cary

  Taken, Knowing, Deception

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.164

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• There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

  Phoebe Cary

  Eye, Black, Half

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90

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• For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
  I have twined them in my sister's locks
  That are hid in the dust from sight.

  Phoebe Cary

  Sight, Dust, Rose

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.174

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• Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?

  Phoebe Cary

  Stars, Reality, Light

  Phoebe Cary (1873). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.235

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• But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

  Phoebe Cary

  Dream, Disappointment, Play

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

  Phoebe Cary

  Men, Harvest, Figs

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202

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• Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.

  Phoebe Cary

  Lying, Rivers, Laughing

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

  Phoebe Cary

  Regret, Temptation, Moments

  Phoebe Cary (1854). “Poems and Parodies”, p.58

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• I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Purple, Rose

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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