“Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.” LooksChildrenHeavenDarkSunCryRainShiningCheerWetRainbowBrooksThistles Author:Mary Howitt
“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.” PeopleIfsChildrenMadeSeemsMotherSpecialNormalMade ItCheerPerfectly Normal Author:Shirley Temple
“I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.” WritingChildrenLittlesBookHomeRememberUsedTurnsPleasureWrittenAirGratitudePureKissingSakeCheerVersesRemember WhenNew Places Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846 Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846