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…

- Sarah Doudney

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…

- Sarah Doudney

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…

- Sarah Doudney

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…

- Sarah Doudney

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

- Sarah Doudney

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

- Sarah Doudney

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

- Sarah Doudney

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…

- Sarah Doudney

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

- Sarah Doudney