Dora Read Goodale Quotes

1866–1915 United States

Dora Read Goodale (1866 – 1915) was an American poet along with her sister of Elaine Goodale Eastman. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).

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And in the woods a fragrance rare
Of wild azaleas fills the air,
And richly tangled overhead
We see their blossoms sweet and red.

All the woodland path is broken
By warm tints along the way,
And the low and sunny slope
Is alive with sudden hope
When there comes the silent token
Of an April day,—
Blue hepatica!

Whence is yonder flower so strangely bright?
Would the sunset's last reflected shine
Flame so red from that dead flush of light?
Dark with passion is its lifted line,
Hot, alive, amid the falling night.

I love the fair lilies and roses so gay,
They are rich in their pride and their splendor;
But still more do I love to wander away
To the meadow so sweet,
Where down at my feet,
The harebell blooms modest and tender.

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

Crimson clover I discover
By the garden gate,
And the bees about her hover,
But the robins wait.
Sing, robins, sing,
Sing a roundelay,—
'Tis the latest flower of Spring
Coming with the May!

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

The Autumn wood the aster knows,
The empty nest, the wind that grieves,
The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,
The squirrel chattering overhead,
The timid rabbits lighter tread
Among the rustling leaves.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dora Read Goodale (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.