Caroline Anne Southey Quotes

• How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

  Caroline Anne Southey

  Death, Flower, Earth

  Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.178

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• Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

  Caroline Anne Southey

  Sweet, Half, Fruit

  Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.238

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• After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

  Caroline Anne Southey

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

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