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Anne Reeve Aldrich Quotes

I bought the sweetness with this pain.

I bought the sweetness with this pain.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Pain, Sweetness

Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Writing, Hands, Paper
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Laughter, Flower, Sorrow
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Insomnia, World, Oblivion
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Space, Dawn, Earth
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”

Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
World, Littles, Glad
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1889). “The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love”

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Art, Hands, Thee
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”

I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Song, War, Eye
Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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