Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

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Out upon you, Jerry! Jerry, you're a pity!
Jerry, turn about and plant a garden in the City!

Eleanor Farjeon
Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble.

Eleanor Farjeon
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet
They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

Eleanor Farjeon
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

Eleanor Farjeon
From the blood of Medusa
Pegasus sprang.
His hoof of heaven
Like melody rang.

Eleanor Farjeon
Once she kissed me with a jest,
Once with a tear —
O where's the heart was in my breast,
And the ring was in my ear?

Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!

Eleanor Farjeon
Water, Loo! water, Loo! fetch me some water!
There isn't a drop for a mile and a quarter!
The ground is so hard and the ground is so dry
I'm frightened my little red rose-bush will die.

Eleanor Farjeon
Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God's re-creation
Of the new day!

Eleanor Farjeon
Of troubles know I none,
Of pleasures know I many —
I rove beneath the sun
Without a single penny.

Eleanor Farjeon
Once Upon a Time,
Once Upon a Time!
Everything that happened, happened
Once Upon a Time!

Eleanor Farjeon
The little White Chapel
Is ringing its bell
With a ring-a-ding-dong,
All day long

Eleanor Farjeon
He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

Eleanor Farjeon
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

Eleanor Farjeon
Alas! why were we born to woe and bliss
If life had no more need of us than this?

Eleanor Farjeon