Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Quotes

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey shares lyrical, tender verses about seasons and healing.

16 quotes

1. The Autumn seems to cry for thee, Best lover of the Autumn-days!

2. The tasks are done and the tears are shed. Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing that night has shed.

3. These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

4. Men die but sorrow never dies.

5. Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

6. Now the last red ray is gone; Now the twilight shadows hie.

7. The sobbing wind is fierce and strong; its cry is like a human wail.

8. Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

9. We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go Back to the same old lives again.

10. Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

11. Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

12. True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

13. Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.

14. All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.

15. Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

16. Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.