More by Lucy Larcom
What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.
Poems (1869)
Whatever with the past has gone
the best is always yet to come.
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Oh, her heart’s adrift with one
On an endless voyage gone!
Night and morning
Hannah’s at the window binding shoes.
Poems (1869)
We are strange phenomena to ourselves, when we will stop to gaze at ourselves; but that I do not believe in; there are pleasanter subjects, and self is a mere speck on the great horizon of life.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
O Mariner-soul,
Thy quest is but begun,
There are new worlds
Forever to be won.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
I do not own an inch of land,
But all I see is mine, —
The orchard and the mowing fields,
The lawns and gardens fine.
Poems (1869)
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