Quotes by Frances Sargent Osgood - Page 1

Love is the greatest of educators.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Love
Educator
Love Is
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With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Strength
Endure
Fidelity
Sorrow
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No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Grief
Pain
Sweet
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To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Heart
Heroic
Loyal
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Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Deeds
Noble
Prayer
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Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Work
Heart
Lying
Weeping Willows
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Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Heart
May
Oysters
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Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Innocent
Mars
Suspicion
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Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Dark
Watches
Water
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An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Heart
May
Sweet
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He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Dream
Children
Fancy
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And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Angel
Children
World
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Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Sirens
Sorrow
World
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And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Music
Bird
Soul
Sweet
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Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the hill, By the fountain and the rill; Laughing out between the leaves That the loving summer weaves.
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Blessed
Race
Summer
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Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word, That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight, That tenderly sings there in loving delight! Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,-- Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird!
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Dream
Heart
Names
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Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!
Frances Sargent Osgood / Poet
Heart
Lying
Waiting
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