Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
sleep white tree
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
sweet nice book
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
flower dark smell
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
night peaceful sorrow
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
feelings safe compass
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
trying influence ought
We ought always to try to influence others for good.
dream stars lying
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
soul growth body
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
friendship best-friend soul
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
mind plums puff
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces
sweet book yesterday
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
thinking movement made
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
wife mind trying
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
night storm cosy
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.