Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Love not! love not! ye hopelesss sons of clay

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March, 1808 – 15 June, 1877) was an English feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century.

Quotes

• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.
  Since first beneath the chestnut-tree
  In fancy we played
  But coldness dwells within thine heart
  A cloud is on thy brow.
  We have been friends together,—
  Shall a light word part us now?
  • We have been Friends.

• I am listening for the voices
  Which I heard in days of old.
  • The lonely Harp.

• Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay;
  Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers—
  Things that are made to fade and fall away,
  Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.
  • Love not.

• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers;
  There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears.
  • Bingen on the Rhine.

• Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—
  Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.
  • Bingen on the Rhine.

• Every poet hopes that after-times
  Shall set some value on his votive lay.
  • To the Duchess of Sutherland (c. 1840).

• O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth
  To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth,
  Leaving on craggy hills and running streams
  A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.
  • The Winter’s Walk (c. 1840).

• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world’s shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.
  • Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).

External links

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