Elizabeth Chase Allen

Elizabeth Chase Allen (October 9, 1832, Strong, Maine – August 7, 1911, Tuckahoe, New York) was an American author, journalist and poet.

Quotes

• Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!
  Make me a child again, just for to-night!
  • Rock me to sleep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
  I am so weary of toil and of tears,—
  Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
  Take them, and give me my childhood again!
  • Rock me to sleep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Behold, we live through all things,—famine, thirst,
  Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
  On soul and body,—but we can not die,
  Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,—
  Lo, all things can be borne!
  • Endurance, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).