Eliza Cook Quotes

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How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Eliza Cook

Birds! birds! ye are beautiful things,
With your earth-treading feet and your cloud-cleaving wings!

Eliza Cook

I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.

Eliza Cook

I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?

Eliza Cook

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

Eliza Cook

Long as I've trod the world, I've found
Naught half so worthy as my hound...

Eliza Cook

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."

Eliza Cook

The bright slime that cunning reptiles spread To catch their prey.

Eliza Cook

The citron or spicy grove for me would never yield A perfume half so grateful as the lilies of the field.

Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook

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Born: December 24, 1818

Died: September 23, 1889 (aged 70)

Bio: Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up.

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