Quotes from Poems — Dinah Craik
1826–1887 England
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Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Poems (1859)
Lo! all life this truth declares!
Laborare est orare;
And the whole earth rings with prayers.
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The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendour.
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Two hands upon the breast,
And labour’s done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
The race is won.
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Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go: wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach, out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain—
But we forget not, never can forget.
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To-morrow is — ah, whose?
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Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake — as mine to thee.
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Poems (1859)