Sarah Helen Whitman Quotes

Sarah Helen Whitman weaves lofty, enchanted verses about stars, storms and secret mysteries.

11 quotes

1. Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.

2. Tell him I lingered alone on the shore, Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore; The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart But colder those wild words of doom,-'Ye must part.'

3. The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor Defied all portents of impending doom.

4. Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled, Till the slant sunbeams through the fringes raining Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold.

5. Enchantress of the stormy seas, Priestess of Night's high mysteries.

6. The summer skies are darkly blue, The days are still and bright, And Evening trails her robes of gold Through the dim halls of Night.

7. Raven from the dim dominions On the Night's Plutonian shore, Oft I hear thy dusky pinions Wave and flutter round my door- See the shadow of thy pinions Float along the moonlit floor.

8. When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

9. The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.

10. The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

11. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.