Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERWe always may be what we might have been.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
-
-
One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
The stars can only shine In the dark night.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
True or false, that never dies
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Each man has some part to play.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Hours are golden links, God’s token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Seated one day at the organ
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER