| 19 Famous Quotes by Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
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“A secret at home is like rocks under tide.”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Magnus and Morna (sc. 2)
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“The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.”
Buttercups Quotes Source: A Silly Song
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“To-morrow is, ah, whose?”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: Between Two Worlds
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“I took the wren's nest;--
Heaven forgive me!
Its merry architects so small
Had scarcely finished their wee hall,
That empty still, and nest and fair,
Hung idly in the summer air.”
Wrens Quotes Source: The Wren's Nest
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“The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, forever.”
Destiny Quotes Source: April
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“Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctials blow.”
Autumn Quotes Source: October
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“Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time!
Year after year returning, with a brow
Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,
And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
Of vanished springs, like flowers.”
April Quotes Source: April
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“O how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,
Watching o'er the dewy valleys,
Like a good king near his end.”
Evening Quotes Source: A Stream's Singing
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“A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree:
A spruce little fellow as ever could be;
His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black,
So long was his tail, and so glossy his back,
That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs,
And only just left them to stretch her poor legs,
And pick for a minute the worm she preferred,
Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.”
Blackbirds Quotes Source: The Blackbird and the Rooks
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“Sing away, ay, sing away,
Merry little bird
Always gayest of the gay,
Though a woodland roundelay
You ne'er sung not heard;
Though your life from youth to age
Passes is a narrow cage.”
Canaries Quotes Source: The Canary in his Cage
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“I said to the sky-poised Lark:
"Hark--hark!
Thy note is more loud and free
Because there lies safe for thee
A little nest on the ground."”
Larks Quotes Source: A Rhyme About Birds
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“I said to the Nightingale:
"Hail, all hail!
Pierce with thy trill the dark,
Like a glittering music-spark,
When the earth grows pale and dumb."”
Nightingales Quotes Source: A Rhyme About Birds
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“Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night,
They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,
And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.
- Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),”
Rooks Quotes Source: Thirty Years--The Blackbird and the Rooks
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“I said to the brown, brown thrush:
"Hush, hush!
Through the wood's full strains I hear
Thy monotone deep and clear,
Like a sound amid sounds most fine."”
Thrushes Quotes Source: A Rhyme About Birds
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“God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;
Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,
When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.”
Christmas Quotes Source: Christmas Carol (st. 2)
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“Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,--
But we forget not, never can forget.”
Forgetfulness Quotes Source: A Flower of a Day
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“Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.”
Seasons Quotes Source: Immutable
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“With faces like dead lovers who died true.”
Faces Quotes Source: Indian Summer
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“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
Bare long after the rest are green;
But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
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But by and by, when the flowers grow few
And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
Out she comes in her matron grace
With the purple myriads of her race;
Full of plenty from root to crown,
Showering plenty her feet adown.
While far over head hang gorgeously
Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
For the best grows highest, always highest,
Upon the mulberry-tree.”
Mulberry Quotes Source: The Mulberry Tree
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Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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