Felicia Hemans
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.Collection: Strength
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heartCollection: Mother
Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.Collection: Past
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.Collection: Courage
The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.Collection: Summer
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.Collection: Sympathy
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.Collection: Death
life's best balm - Forgetfulness!Collection: Forget
Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?Collection: Summer
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?Collection: Strength
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.Collection: Beautiful
Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?Collection: Firefly
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.Collection: War
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.Collection: Flower
I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.Collection: Gone
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!Collection: Death