Harriet Winslow Sewall Quotes

1819–1889

Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.

Why thus longing, thus forever sighingFor the far-off, unattained, and dim,While the beautiful all round thee lyingOffers up its low, perpetual hymn?

Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Poor indeed must thou be, if around theeThou no ray of light and joy canst throw—

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— Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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