Felicia Hemans Quotes

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.”

— Felicia Hemans

“Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.”

— Felicia Hemans

“There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart”

— Felicia Hemans

“Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.”

— Felicia Hemans

“Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?”

— Felicia Hemans

There's beauty all around our paths,
If but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things,
And through their lowly guise.

— Felicia Hemans

“Passing away is written on the world and all the world contains.”

— Felicia Hemans

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

— Felicia Hemans

Life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

— Felicia Hemans

“I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.”

— Felicia Hemans

“Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?”

— Felicia Hemans

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

— Felicia Hemans

“We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.”

— Felicia Hemans

“Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

— Felicia Hemans

“There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?”

— Felicia Hemans

“Come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.”

— Felicia Hemans

Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

— Felicia Hemans

“Alas! for love, if thou art all,
And nought beyond, O earth.”

— Felicia Hemans

Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there they found,-
Freedom to worship God.

— Felicia Hemans