Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Home-life, when one always stays at home, is necessarily narrowing. That is one reason why so many women are petty and unthoughtful… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
