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Caroline Anne Southey Quotes

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

Caroline Anne Southey
Death, Flower, Earth
Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.178

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

Caroline Anne Southey
Sweet, Half, Fruit
Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.238

After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

Caroline Anne Southey
Lying, Flower, Book
Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

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