Anne Reeve Aldrich Quotes

• I bought the sweetness with this pain.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Pain, Sweetness

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• Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Writing, Hands, Paper

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Laughter, Flower, Sorrow

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Insomnia, World, Oblivion

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Space, Dawn, Earth

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”

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• Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  World, Littles, Glad

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1889). “The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love”

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• All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Art, Hands, Thee

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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