Felicia Hemans – Quotes

Alas! for love, if

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Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth. Felicia Hemans

Oh! lovely voices of

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Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour’s birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, \”Peace on earth\”? Felicia Hemans

Come, I come! ye

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Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o’er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o’er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet’s birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass. Felicia Hemans

Thou hast all seasons

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Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! Felicia Hemans

I had a hat.

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I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on. Felicia Hemans

A passion for flowers,

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A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. Felicia Hemans

What sought they thus

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What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith’s pure shrine. Felicia Hemans

Is it where the

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Is it where the flow’r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro’ the myrtle boughs? Felicia Hemans

The stately Homes of

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The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O’er all the pleasant land. Felicia Hemans

Ay, call it holy

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Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God. Felicia Hemans