Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March, 1808 – 15 June, 1877) was an English feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century.

Quotes

 * We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Since first beneath the chestnut-tree In fancy we played But coldness dwells within thine heart A cloud is on thy brow. We have been friends together,— Shall a light word part us now?
 * ''We have been Friends.


 * I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
 * The lonely Harp.


 * Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay; Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers— Things that are made to fade and fall away, Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.
 * Love not.


 * A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears.
 * Bingen on the Rhine.


 * Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning— Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.
 * Bingen on the Rhine.


 * Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
 * To the Duchess of Sutherland (c. 1840).


 * O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.
 * The Winter’s Walk (c. 1840).


 * For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world’s shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
 * Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).