Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March, 1808 – 15 June, 1877) was an English feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century.
Quotes
[edit]- We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree
In fancy we played
But coldness dwells within thine heart
A cloud is on thy brow.
We have been friends together,—
Shall a light word part us now?- We have been Friends.
- I am listening for the voices
Which I heard in days of old.- The lonely Harp.
- Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay;
Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers—
Things that are made to fade and fall away,
Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.- Love not.
- A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers;
There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears.- Bingen on the Rhine.
- Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—
Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.- Bingen on the Rhine.
- Every poet hopes that after-times
Shall set some value on his votive lay.- To the Duchess of Sutherland (c. 1840).
- O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth
To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth,
Leaving on craggy hills and running streams
A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.- The Winter’s Walk (c. 1840).
- For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world’s shore,
And all our calm is in that balm—
Not lost but gone before.- Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).
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