Caroline Anne Southey Professions : Poet Born : 1786 Died : 1854 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Caroline Anne Southey How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they. Caroline Anne Southey flower earth death Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season. Caroline Anne Southey fruit half sweet After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome! Caroline Anne Southey flower book lying Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors