Margaret Junkin Preston
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was an American poet and author remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.
Quotes
[edit]- Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
Shut in a lily's golden core.- "Agnes", line 25, in Cartoons (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875), p. 206.
- [T]he pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven!- "In the Hereafter", Stanza 13, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 36.
- With guilt's defilement stained without, within,
How can I hope Thy cleansing grace to win?
—Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin."- "Questionings", Stanza 3, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 38
Old Song and New (1870)
[edit]- Old Song and New. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870
- White as the blossoms which the almond-tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears.- "The Royal Preacher", Stanza 5, p. 67.
- Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
- "Nature's Lesson", line 1, p. 260.
Attributed
[edit]Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
[edit]- Quotes reported in: Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical, ed. Charles Noel Douglas
- Her smile was prodigal of summery shine,—
Gaily persistent,—like a morn in June
That laughs away the clouds, and up and down
Goes making merry with the ripening grain,
That slowly ripples,—its bent head drooped down,
With golden secret of the sheathèd seed.
- In the vale beneath the hill
The evening’s growing purple strengthens.
- O Nature, gracious mother of us all,
Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie
Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye
That seeks and waits.
- The pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven.
- Whoso lives the holiest life
Is fittest far to die.
