A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers. - Richard Henry Stoddard
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
- Richard Henry Stoddard
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. - Richard Henry Stoddard
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life. - Richard Henry Stoddard
There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity. - Richard Henry Stoddard
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time. - Richard Henry Stoddard
There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.
A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain? - Richard Henry Stoddard
A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years! - Richard Henry Stoddard
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. - Richard Henry Stoddard
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.
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 hear… - 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 hear…
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