Margaret Junkin Preston

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

Quotes

• 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)

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.
  • "Rhodope's Sandal", line 6, p. 94.

• Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
  • "Nature's Lesson", line 1, p. 260.

External links

• Beechenbrook e-text