“The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.”
Source: Poems ... Third edition
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Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.”
Source: City Poems
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems ... Third edition
Source: Poems
“An old novel has a history of its own.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.”
Source: Alfred Hagart's household
Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
“Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“The only thing a man knows is himself.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp: eight essays
“Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: City Poems
“In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.”
Source: Books and Gardens
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: City Poems
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“A poem round and perfect as a star.”
Source: Poems
“A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Source: Dreamthorp