Quotes from Celia Thaxter

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

The sunrise never failed us yet.

There shall be Eternal summer in the grateful heart.

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 whole world round Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.