Eldest Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

— Helen Hunt Jackson