Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes

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Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,
Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,
Silent above the flowers, her children lost,
Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

Richard Henry Stoddard
A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?

Richard Henry Stoddard
There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.

Richard Henry Stoddard
We have two lives about us,
Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
Alternate Heaven and Hell:—
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

Richard Henry Stoddard
Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.

Richard Henry Stoddard
It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.

Richard Henry Stoddard
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

Richard Henry Stoddard
Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.

Richard Henry Stoddard
Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.

Richard Henry Stoddard
Thou wert before the Continents, before The hollow heavens, which like another sea Encircles them and thee, but whence thou wert, And when thou wast created, is not known, Antiquity was young when thou wast old.

Richard Henry Stoddard
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

Richard Henry Stoddard