Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcomwas an American poet and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 March 1824
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual reality life-and-death
Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.
real clouds feelings
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.
home reality rich-or-poor
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.
children rich-or-poor individuality
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
character curse manhood
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
autumn years shining
To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through...
writing water ifs
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
men may misanthrope
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
helping-others helping willing
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.
life-and-love cheerful inspired
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
philosophy simplicity needs
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
play feet parent
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
girl simple thinking
Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.
wake-up noble way
God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.