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Louise Chandler Moulton
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“There is rust upon locks and hinges, And mold and blight on the walls, And silence faints in the chambers, And darkness waits in the halls.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The House of Death", in Swallow-Flights (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), p. 23.
“Youth is thy gift—the youth that baffles Time.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Julia Ward Howe", in The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1909), p. 455
“Bend low, O dusky Night, And give my spirit rest; Hold me to your deep breast, And put old cares to flight; Give back the lost delight That once my soul possest, When Love was loveliest,— Bend low, O dusky night!”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife, At end of all we cling to so— The sun is setting—must we go?At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so— The sun is rising—let us go.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hied me off to Arcady— The month it was the month of May, And all along the pleasant way The morning birds were mad with glee, And all the flowers sprang up to see, As I went on to Arcady.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Note in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919):— Compare Henry Cuyler Bunner, "The Way to Arcady".
“I dwell no more in Arcady:— But when the sky is blue with May, And flowers spring up along the way, And birds are blithe, and winds are free, I know what message is for me,— Fotr I have been in Arcady.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know?”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source