Adelaide Anne Procter Professions : Poet Born : October 30, 1825 Died : February 2, 1864 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Adelaide Anne Procter No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Adelaide Anne Procter motivation stars inspirational Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. Adelaide Anne Procter perfect-days light night One by one the sands are flowing, Adelaide Anne Procter moments time fall One by one bright gifts from heaven Adelaide Anne Procter given joy heaven Dreams grow holy put in action. Adelaide Anne Procter holiness adelaide dream Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Adelaide Anne Procter limits kind heart Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. Adelaide Anne Procter flow dream action Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.' Adelaide Anne Procter grief passing-away heart Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain. Adelaide Anne Procter pain sorrow long Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun. Adelaide Anne Procter rain spring fall Hours are golden links, God's token Adelaide Anne Procter broken time heaven Half my life is full of sorrow, Adelaide Anne Procter sorrow joy life I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. Adelaide Anne Procter poison sweet inspirational See how time makes all grief decay. Adelaide Anne Procter decay grief time 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. Adelaide Anne Procter angel light men Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? Adelaide Anne Procter strife noble ideas 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. Adelaide Anne Procter horse men thinking I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road. Adelaide Anne Procter adelaide lord may Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Adelaide Anne Procter echoes one-day keys Each man has some part to play. Adelaide Anne Procter acting play men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
