Sarah Doudney

Sarah Doudney (an inscription signed by Doudney appears beneath the portrait engraving).

Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford) was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter.

Quotes

• The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
  That stirred our hearts in youth,
  The impulse to a wordless prayer,
  The dreams of love and truth,
  The longings after something lost,
  The spirit’s yearning cry,
  The strivings after better hopes,—
  These things can never die.
  • Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I send thee pansies while the year is young,
  Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
  Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
  By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.
  • Poem: Pansies.

• And a proverb haunts my mind
  As a spell is cast,
  "The mill cannot grind
  With the water that is past."
  • Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.

• But the waiting time, my brothers,
  Is the hardest time of all.
  • Psalms of Life: The Hardest Time of All.

External links

• Works by Sarah Doudney
• Sarah Doudney, 1841-1926 at cyberhymnal.org