Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was a notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories.

Quotes

• The awful phantom of the hungry poor.
  • A Winter’s Night (sonnet).

• Ah, happy world, where all things live
  Creatures of one great law, indeed;
  Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower,—
  Swept by great seas, the drifting seed!
  • The Story of the Flower.

• A place of dream, the Holy Land
  Hangs midway between earth and heaven.
  • The Holy Land.

• Beauty vanishes like a vapor,
  Preach the men of musty morals.
  • Evanescence (1900).

• He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,—when their sun shines, dance,—and when their vapors rise, sit in the shadow.
  • The Amber Gods (1863).