Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes

Adelaide Anne Procter shares poetic reflections on joy, peace, and the danger of too-sweet promises.

18 quotes

  1. I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road.

  2. I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

  3. Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord,-till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.

  4. Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

  5. Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys.

  6. It seemed the harmonious echo From our discordant life.

  7. Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  8. Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

  9. Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

  10. See how time makes all grief decay.

  11. One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

  12. Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

  13. Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

  14. No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  15. No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

  16. Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

  17. The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

  18. Dreams grow holy put in action.