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Quotes by Mary Clemmer
The anemone in snowy hood, The sweet arbutus in the wood. And to the smiling skies above I say, "Bend brightly o'er my love."— filed under Flirting
I lie amid the Goldenrod, I love to see it lean and nod; I love to feel the grassy sod Whose kindly breast will hold me last, Whose patient arms will fold me fast!- Fold me from sunshine and from song, Fold me from sorrow and from wrong: Through gleaming gates of Goldenrod I'll pass into the rest of God.— filed under Flowers-Forget-Me-Not
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?— filed under Occupations-Jeweler
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too great for fame.— filed under Occupations-Jeweler
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.— filed under Sows
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.— filed under To-Morrow