Christopher Pearse Cranch Quotes

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O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Beautiful and rare Aurora,
In the heavens thou art their Flora

Christopher Pearse Cranch

One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing together, Over some ornithological joke.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Born: March 8, 1813

Died: January 20, 1892 (aged 78)

Bio: Christopher Pearse Cranch was an American writer and artist.

Known for:

Last of the huggermuggers (1855)
The Bird And The Bell, With Other Poems (1875)
Ariel And Caliban, With Other Poems (1887)
Satan: A Libretto (1874)

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