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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Phœbe Cary

  • 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.
  • Father, perfect my trust;
  • Let my spirit feel in death
  • That her feet are firmly set
  • On the rock of a living faith!
  • For little children everywhere
  • A joyous season still we make;
  • We bring our precious gifts to them,
  • Even for the dear child Jesus’ sake.
  • 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.
  • No thought within her bosom stirs,
  • But wakes some feeling dark and dread;
  • God keep thee from a doom like hers,
  • Of living when the hopes are dead.
  • O years, gone down into the past,
  • What pleasant memories come to me
  • Of your untroubled days of peace,
  • And hours almost of ecstasy.
  • There are eyes half defiant,
  • Half meek and compliant;
  • Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
  • To bring us good or to work us harm.
  • 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.