Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Dreams grow holy put in action.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and f…

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every…

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

See how time makes all grief decay.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

- Adelaide Anne Procter