Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Quotes

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A place of dream, the Holy Land
Hangs midway between earth and heaven.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Ah, happy world, where all things live
Creatures of one great law, indeed;
Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower,—
Swept by great seas, the drifting seed!

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Beauty vanishes like a vapor,
Preach the men of musty morals.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,—when their sun shines, dance,—and when their vapors rise, sit in the shadow.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Dear the people coming home,
Dear glad faces long away,
Dear the merry cries, and dear
All the glad and happy play.
Dear the thanks, too, that we give
For all of this Thanksgiving Day.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
An April day in the morning!

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
I am the one rich thing that morn
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Since the foundation of the world man has had nearly all the forces on his side, working with him and for him; his intellect has been stimulated, while that of woman has been abased; he has had the run of the world and all quickening and brightening things, while she has sat in the cinders, and until of late been illumined only by his reflected light.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford