Ellen Clementine Howarth

Ellen Clementine Howarth (May 17, 1827 – December 23, 1899), born Ellen Clementine Doran in Cooperstown, New York, was an American poet.

Quotes

• 'T is but a little faded flower,
  But oh, how fondly dear!
  'T will bring me back one golden hour,
  Through many a weary year.
  • 'Tis but a Little, Faded Flower, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Who hath not saved some trifling thing
  More prized than jewels rare,
  A faded flower, a broken ring,
  A tress of golden hair.
  • 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.

• Where is the heart that doth not keep,
  Within its inmost core,
  Some fond remembrance hidden deep,
  Of days that are no more?
  • 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 507.