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Sarah Williams Quotes

1837–1868 England

Sarah Williams (December 1837 – 25 April 1868) was an English poet and novelist, most famous as the author of the poem "The Old Astronomer". She published short works and one collection of poetry during her lifetime under the pseudonyms Sadie and S.A.D.I., the former of which she considered her name rather than a nom de plume.

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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,
And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.

Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most,
That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)

Reach me down my Tycho Brahé, — I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet.

Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)

What, for us, are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles?
What, for us, the goddess Pleasure, with her meretricious wiles?

Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)

Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most?
That the strongest wander farthest, and more hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,
And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? —
"I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now."

Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)

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