Margaret Junkin Preston Quotes

• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Lying

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• O Nature, gracious mother of us all,
  Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie
  Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye
  That seeks and waits.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Mother, Nature, Lying

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• God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Husband, War, Heart

  Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”

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• Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Pain, Past

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

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• The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Lotuses, Tides

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.94

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