The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

Alice Cary

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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, by Alice Cary

There's nothing so kingly as kindness,

royal kindness

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

wall garden grief

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for a... by Alice Cary

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

life-is helping men

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

autumn spring book

How many lives we live in one, by Alice Cary

How many lives we live in one,

philosophy life art

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

light sight song

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

hours house heaven

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

bears world son

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way h... by Alice Cary

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

fellow-man love men

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

grace calling path

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. by Alice Cary

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

sunbeams winter fall

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

missing helping happiness

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

maple drifting gum

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love. by Alice Cary

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt t... by Alice Cary

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

splits action way

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; by Alice Cary

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;

broken war heaven

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every... by Alice Cary

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

crowds soul men

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. by Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

birth honest noble

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

work heart men

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is... by Alice Cary

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

done work men