Margaret Junkin Preston

Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was an American poet and author remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.

Quotes

• White as the blossoms which the almond tree,
  Above its bald and leafless branches bears.
  • The Royal Preacher, Stanza 5, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 19.

• The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.
  • Rhodope's Sandal, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 463.

• The pure memories given
  To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
  Shall help our joy in heaven.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 407.

• With guilt's defilement stained, without, within,
  How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win?
  Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin."
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 87.

• Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
  • Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 575.

• Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
  Shut in a lily's golden core.
  • Agnes, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 458.

External links

• Beechenbrook e-text