Julia Caroline Dorr Quotes

1825–1913

Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr (1825–1913) was an American author who published both prose and poetry.

O golden Silence, bid our souls be still,And on the foolish fretting of our careLay thy soft touch of healing unaware!

Silence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balmFor eyes grown weary of the garish day!Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments gray,Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palmThe poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.

Julia Caroline Dorr
— Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Aspirations pure and high —Strength to do and to endure —Heir of all the Ages, I —Lo! I am no longer poor!

Julia Caroline Dorr
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.

Tags: Aspirations, pure, high, Strength, endure, Heir, Ages, longer, poor

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What dost thou bring to me, O fair To-day,That comest o'er the mountains with swift feet?

Julia Caroline Dorr
— To-Day; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

Tags: What, dost, me, fair, comest, mountains, swift, feet

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Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Julia Caroline Dorr
— p. 455. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)

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The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold To catch the sunshine and the dew.

Julia Caroline Dorr
— Julia C. R. Dorr, Centennial Poem, line 165.

Tags: buttercups, brighteyed, bold, chalices, gold, catch, sunshine, dew

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