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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

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  • 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)

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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.
  • The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.
  • Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
    • "Nature's Lesson", line 1, p. 260.
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