Mary Mapes Dodge

Mary Mapes Dodge

Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 1831 – 21 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker.

Quotes

Along the Way (1879)

Along the Way (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879)

• Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
  Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!
  • "The Two Mysteries", line 11, p. 16.

• But I believe that God is overhead;
  And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
  • "The Two Mysteries", line 19, p. 17.

• For ever and ever, my darling, yes—
  Goodness and love are undying;
  Only the troubles and cares of earth
  Are winged from the first for flying.
  Our way we plough
  In the furrow "now;"
  But after the tilling and growing the sheaf;
  Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf—
  And God keepeth watch forever.
  • "Trust", stanza 5, p. 57.

• Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky,
  It turns and turns to say "Good-bye!
  Good-by, dear cloud, so cool and gray!"
  Then lightly travels on its way.
  • "Snow-flakes", stanza 1, p. 69.

• But when a snow-flake, brave and meek,
  Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
  It starts—"How warm and soft the day!"
  "'Tis summer!" and it melts away.
  • "Snow-flakes", stanza 3, p. 69.

External links

• Works by Mary Mapes Dodge at Project Gutenberg
• Electronic Poetry Project - Publication List for Dodge, Mary Mapes