Adelaide Anne Procter
Adelaide Anne Procter
Adelaide Anne Procterwas an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1825
might
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
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We always may be what we might have been.
night perfect-days light
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
joy heaven thee
One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
dream adelaide action
Dreams grow holy put in action.
dream flow action
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
stars motivation adelaide
No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
grief heart passing-away
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'
pain long sorrow
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
heart limits kind
Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
may adelaide lord
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
ideas noble strife
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
angel men light
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
time fall moments
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.