Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 15, 1841 Death: December 8, 1926
There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desola….
The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scor….
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way..
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings a….
And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past..
But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all..
Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part..
Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this….
Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest le….