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10 Quotes for 'Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt)' in the Database.
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Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt) Quotes
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For April sobs while these are so glad
April weeps while these are so gay,--
Weeps like a tired child who had,
Playing with flowers, lost its way.
Topic: April
Source: Verses--April
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When the baby dies,
On every side
Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.
The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.
The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed
That men's eyes might not see
Her misery.
Topic: Babyhood
Source: When the Baby Died
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"O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field
Is shining white with fragrant immortelles
Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."
Topic: Bees
Source: My Bees
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All summer she scattered the daisy leaves;
They only mocked her as they fell.
She said: "The daisy but deceives;
'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'
One story no two daisies tell."
Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves
Under the daisy's mocking spell.
Topic: Daisies
Source: The Sign of the Daisy
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;
The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain
Make Good
Together there we can begin again
In babyhood.
Topic: Immortality
Source: At Last (st. 6)
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Ah, March! we know thou art
Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
Topic: March
Source: Verses--March
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O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before,
Forever June may pour her warm red wine
Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
Topic: May
Source: Verses--May
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O month when they who love must love and wed.
Topic: May
Source: Verses--May
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Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;
Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Topic: Passion
Source: Vanity of Vanities
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On the king's gate the moss grew gray;
The king came not. They call'd him dead;
And made his eldest son, one day,
Slave in his father's stead.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Coronation
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