Margaret Junkin Preston
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Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was an American poet and author remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.
Quotes
[edit]- Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
Shut in a lily's golden core.- "Agnes", line 25, in Cartoons (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875), p. 206.
- [T]he pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven!- "In the Hereafter", Stanza 13, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 36.
- With guilt's defilement stained without, within,
How can I hope Thy cleansing grace to win?
—Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin."- "Questionings", Stanza 3, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 38
Old Song and New (1870)
[edit]- Old Song and New. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870
- White as the blossoms which the almond-tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears.- "The Royal Preacher", Stanza 5, p. 67.
- Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
- "Nature's Lesson", line 1, p. 260.