Alice Cary
Alice Cary
Alice Carywas an American poet, and the sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 April 1820
CityMount Healthy, OH
CountryUnited States of America
kindness royal
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
splits way impossible
The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.
fighting men soul
Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-- Holding and having its brief exultation-- Making its lonesome and low lamentation-- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.
gum drifting maple
I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.
spring book autumn
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.
seeming true-worth
True worth is in being, not seeming