Alice Cary Quotes

1820–1871 United States

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was a poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her younger sister, Phoebe Cary, co-published poems in 1849.

United States
19th-century poets
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Also known as: Cary, Alice

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We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.

Life's Mysteries; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

Yea, when mortality dissolves,
Shall I not meet thine hour unawed?
My house eternal in the heavens
Is lighted by the smile of God!

My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light.

Desolate—Life is so dreary and desolate—
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle,
Yet with itself every soul standeth single,
Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan—
Holding and having its brief exultation—
Making its lonesome and low lamentation—
Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

Life; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Cary (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.