Sarah Doudney



Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford) was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter.

Quotes

 * The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes,— These things can never die.
 * Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night; Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.
 * Poem: Pansies.


 * And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past."
 * Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.


 * But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.
 * Psalms of Life: The Hardest Time of All.