Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

— 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 be thankful the rest of my life.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Life

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

— Helen Hunt Jackson

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

— Helen Hunt Jackson

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

— Helen Hunt Jackson

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Love has a tide!

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Happiness

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 in his father's stead.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Life

O month when they who love must love and wed.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

— 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 thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

— Helen Hunt Jackson