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> [O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/o-brief-bright-smile-of-summer-o-days-divine-and-dear-the-voices-of/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

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## More by Celia Thaxter

> [It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/it-seems-to-me-the-worst-of-all-the-plagues-is-the-slug-the-snail/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/it-is-curious-that-the-leaf-should-so-love-the-light-and-the-root-so/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/when-the-snow-is-still-blowing-against-the-window-pane-in-january-and/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/peacefully-the-quiet-stars-came-out-one-after-one-the-holy-twilight/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/i-am-fully-and-intensely-aware-that-plants-are-conscious-of-love-and/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/once-more-their-weird-laughter-of-the-loons-comes-to-my-ear-the/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/the-toad-has-indeed-no-superior-as-a-destroyer-of-noxious-insects-and/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/so-deeply-is-the-gardener-s-instinct-implanted-in-my-soul-i-really/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [“Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/who-shall-compass-or-fathom-god-s-thought-profound-we-can-but-praise/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/there-shall-be-an-eternal-summer-in-the-grateful-heart/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/already-the-dandelions-are-changed-into-vanishing-ghosts/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/o-brief-bright-smile-of-summer-o-days-divine-and-dear-the-voices-of/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/this-very-act-of-planting-a-seed-in-the-earth-has-in-it-to-me/)

[Celia Thaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-thaxter/)

> [O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/o-happy-happy-morning-o-dear-familiar-place-o-warm-sweet-tears-of/)

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> [Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-thaxter/last-week-when-i-went-early-into-my-garden-a-rose-breasted-grosbeak/)

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