Lucy Larcom

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."

- Lucy Larcom

"“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”"

- Lucy Larcom

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."

- Lucy Larcom

"He who plants a tree. Plants a hope."

- Lucy Larcom

"Each red stripe has blazoned forth Gospels writ in blood; Every star has sung the birth Of some deathless good."

- Lucy Larcom

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good."

- Lucy Larcom

"Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come."

- Lucy Larcom

"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."

- Lucy Larcom

"When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen."

- Lucy Larcom